Sputnik-1 Telemetry Signal (audio)

[d1ckyj0nes]

There was a video somewhere around here with an american radio announcement regarding Sputnik. It resembled the Infamy Speech.

Anyone know where it might be found?

[Ruychaven]

It's so cute! :)

[Serega2000L]

HAPPY MY FRIENDS! With the start of THE SPACE AGE!

[tareqbatarni]

sputnik is not nasa

[danvoncarr]

This sounds so creepy.

[nightwind928]

I remember, as a kid, the impact this seemingly innocent and rather archaic ( by today's standards) piece of hardware had on american society. It shocked my grandparents to the core that the Soviets had some machine in outer space beaming strange signals down. For a moment in time, we were stunned and frightened and we knew that the world, as we understood it, would never be the same place again.

[neonWHALE002]

that could be used for a song

[ahutchison1333333]

Houston, we have a problem!

[jedwards1211]

I've heard this sample in a song somewhere.

[keoghjacob]

Morning bells are ringing!

[ThrilloVanHouten]

Whoa, I've never heard a recording of Sputnik like this. I always heard it with constant tones.

Good vid!

[postliterateprojects]

Sputnik samples were used in the most recent Post Literate project, Used Future by US English. Check out or page to hear them in action!

[MattiCrom]

Sputnik rulez

[LonghornPhysicist]

fake. Its impossible to go to space.

[thetitanicadventure4]

@LonghornPhysicist Are you frickin insane i sopose Nasa sells ice cream now WHAT THE HECK wake up its 2011 if we have 3d tv ud think we can go into space and the space staition i suposes its a fake

[JustWickedSwede]

@LonghornPhysicist Yepp, and the earth is flat.

[reaperstyle12]

can i use this for a song?

[nyyankees4296]

simple but so cool

[BabyAkantor]

Nice

[NewMadrid01]

OMG THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!!!

[9856359]

omg, scary!

[sja11]

don't try to diminish the accomplishment. The first man-made object in orbit is a huge milestone in space history.

And it means more than any previous german or us army suborbital V2 flight.

[jasincl]

@sja11 well the ROCKET that launched it was based on a germand esign

[Mikolajja]

@jasincl yeah just like the mercury, gemini and apollo rockets were all DESIGNED (not based off of) by an ex-Nazi, Von Braun. Thats all besides the point anyways... all science and technology is based off of the design and thoughts of the experts that came before, if it hadn't been for Galelio and Newton we probably would have never even launched the v2s. The space race represents something completely unique to humanity, a chance to work together competitively towards dreams we cannot imagine.

[williamblake69]

@sja11 certinly it was a huge accomplishment, i just watched the movie "october sky" it was great. makes me wish i was alive when this satellite was launched

[PreppyPolaGirl17]

aww it makes such a cute sound!! Spunik was awesome!!! i wonder what the Soviets did with it after it came back down.....

[epluribusunum0]

Watched the fires in the skies.

[kfafnis]

they didn't, it burned up reentering the atmosphere

[sja11]

nothing. At this point the soviets hadn't figured out how to solve the problem of reentry.

everything they sent up just burned away instead of landing safely until they figured out how to reenter.

[shriramvenu]

it burnt up in the lower atmosphere

[davesnijder]

it never came back down...

[thetitanicadventure4]

@PreppyPolaGirl17 it burned up on reentry :( sorry but its cool its the size of a basket ball so ge a basket ball paint it silver tape on some antanas and you have your own sputnik oh and four antennas

[straightupballin3]

this is really amazing

[kakabukkake0]

Sputnik is a technological milestone. Dont try to rationalize otherwise just because it was made by the Russians and not the glorious USA or the pathetic Nazi Regime.

[tokorev747777]

you know alot of people thought when we first heard this, we thought it could have been lifee from other planets, true fact!

[poorlymadeproduction]

poeple can be SOOOOO incredibly STUPID!

[AI4QT]

BIG DEAL. The Russians were first maybe with an orbiting satellite, but captured V-2s launched in the 1950s in Florida reached 100 kilometers above earth-- where many nations agree space begins-- so who was first in space? THE USA. Besides, the U.S. did some real science by actually placing a radiation detector on our first orbiting satellite, Explorer 1 in January, 1958 confirming radiation belts around our planet.

[ReallyTinyShoes]

American V-2 launches started in 1946, not 50's, and they were all suborbital flights, just like soviet R-1 launches in late 40's. The first flight above 100km was actually achieved by german V-2 in June 1944. And Sputnik was such a big deal because if soviets were able to put something in orbit, that meant they've built missles capable of delivering nuclear weapons to USA, which was impossible with older rockets.

[AI4QT]

Captured V-2s were reassembled in New Mexico and later modified with WAC Corporal upper stages to achieved higher attitudes. I have never found where V-2s in Germany reached 100 kilometers (60 miles). This was left for the Americans with their WAC Corporal upper stage.

[AI4QT]

Noticed as well, that I mentioned Florda launches in 1950s-- NOT those V2s that were launched in New Mexico.

[ReallyTinyShoes]

June 1944, V2(A4) vertical launch test, launched from Pennemunde, apsis 176km. V2 in its ballistic trajectory wasnt able to reach Karman line, but it was possible with vertical trajectory. USAF achieved its first suborbital spaceflight on April 16th 1946, with V2 vertical launch from White Sands as a part of Project Hermes.

[Superbadspider]

oh yes. THE USA invented everything important. (Just forget paper, compass, acupuncture, gunpowder... those things are just silly stuff made by evil commies)

=)

[Ascensiam]

don't forget that the USA also didn't develop anything before 1776

[INeedToLiveLonger]

@Superbadspider slavery as well

[mza131313]

i heard that the CIA has one of the sputniks is that ture?

[Yrda1]

You can use Audacity to record the sounds and look at frequency decibel etc.

[lotsofnumbers1357341]

That's the greatest sound EVAR

[MEKofTheMEKkingdom]

It sounds bloody terrifying :o

[Andypan43]

So after being up there for 50 years,its still broadcasting its beeps?Amazing if thats the case.

[Jan73463]

It burnt up on 4th of January 1958 when coming back into the atmosphere =)

[poorlymadeproduction]

good i frigin hate sputnik

[brucefan181]

i know, 50 years is rly close to 4 months, dont worry.

[shinra18]

I'm sorry that just sounds evil. :p

lol :]

[carvalhovsky]

Could you please tell me the parameters of the beep (audio frequency, pulse duration, interval between pulses, etc)?

I'm trying to reproduce it, so I can use it as an alarm sound in an alarm clock I'm assembling.

Thanks in advance!

[jwabit]

This is an analog audio recording of the signal

literally "off the air" and preserved on a

phonograph record I kept for years. I don't

have the information you ask for, sorry.

[carvalhovsky]

Thanks anyway!

I managed to find these settings playing around with another recording of the suptink 1 I found on the internet...

Just in case, for that recording, the beep frequency was 730 Hz, its duration was around 185 ms and the interval between beeps was around 220 ms...

[hairyballsinurmouth]

Why does this sound diffrent from the other radio sounds of sputnik on youtube?

[jwabit]

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that the

pitch of the tones is controlled by sensors on board... so temperature, for example, might be quite different at different times (like in sunshine vs. in Earth's shadow).

[tf878]

Sputnik 1 had two transmitters: First at 20.005MHz with well known beep-beep. The pause between beeps indicates the temperature onboard. Second transmitter was at double frequency with this sound. it contains some additional telemetry.

[contrapezist]

@tf878 Its likely lost with time, our guys couldnt make much of it the guys that knew what it all meant are gone, texts of the time are just speculation and the evidence burned up when the aliens shot it down :) The bad thing about classified once its no longer considered signifigant the details have been lost, then again parts of explorer and vanguard are still classified. Lets not forget that intelsat 1 is still in orbit and at known last check could still be activated.

[RomelioSanz]

This was the sound of a new age which was begining, The Space Age!!!!

[kamil424242]

piekne... ('.')

[Jaesango]

that's sooo cool!

[pritarama]

AMAZING!

[cuco1271]

el principio de una nueva era como una voz desde el cielo

[sputnikfreedom]

I LOVE THIS SOUND!!!

[carlosdangerous]

amazing.