the name of the first satellite is Sputnik
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The Russian spacecraft the first by man was called the sputnik.
Canada's first satellite was Alouette 1, a scientific satellite designed and built by the Defence and Research Telecommunications Establishment (a division of the Defence Research Board).The functions of these organizations were later absorbed into the National Research Council, which the Canadian Space Agency was created from.
Research or propaganda. Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite in space. Extreemly expensive propaganda! It was the first step by the USSR to putting a man in space.
Explorer One launched on January 31st 1958.
The USSR (Russia).