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October 4(5), 2011 is the 54th Anniversary of the launch of the world's first satellite, Sputnik 1.

This is an account of how I simulated a re-enactment of the Sputnik 1 flight into earth orbit, on October 4(5), 1957. You can click on each picture below to view a larger image.

Before starting the simulation, I had to make sure time was synched between the simulator and the real world, here you can see UTC, Moscow, Baikonur, and local (Marawi) time...

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