Orbital-class rockets built to carry a payload from the ground into Earth orbit or beyond, excluding vehicles designed only for a suborbital hop. Belongs here: any rocket whose primary function is launching payloads to orbital velocity. Does not belong here: a rocket built only to reach space briefly without achieving orbit, grouped under Suborbital Launch Vehicle.
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1. Wikipedia: Sputnik 1
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It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program.
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