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Space Race The world’s first satellite, Sputnik 1, was rocketed into orbit by the Soviet Union in 1957. The country’s bitter rival, the United States, had been developing its own satellite and was furious to have lost the first episode of what became known as the Space Race. The first US satellite, ExplorEr 1, was launched just three months later.
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Radio signals are used both to direct satellites and to receive information from them.
