英 [ˈspʌtnɪk; ˈspʊtnɪk] 美 [ˈspʌtnɪkˌˈspʊtnɪk]
n. 人造卫星（前苏联制造）
Sputnik /ˈspʊtnɪk, ˈspʌt-/
名词 any of a series of unmanned Soviet satellites, Sputnik 1 (launched in 1957) being the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth 前苏联人造地球卫星
a Russian artificial satellite
人造卫星
人造地球卫星
...上世纪40年代，核子时代一夜之间崛起，那时很多人预测，到了2000年，世界将变成核能的世界；当苏联发射第一颗人造卫星（Sputnik 1），美国宇航员搭乘阿波罗11号登上月球时，全世界人们的想象力都被激发起来，每个人都认为，到20世纪末，人们将在火星和冥王星上...
斯普特尼克（Sputnik）是前苏联发射的第一颗人造地球卫星的名字，意思是“旅伴”，它在围绕地球转了1400圈后坠入大气层消失。
半个世纪前，苏联发射成功名为Sputnik（人造地球卫星）的人造卫星，在航天领域击败我们，我们谁也不知道如何在登月上击败他们。那时，登月科学尚不存在，国家航天署甚至也不存在。
...历史的某个时期，这种被高度管理的复杂系统显示了其高效，让当时的竞争模式彻底束手无策：从田纳西河流管理局到伴侣号（Sputnik）人造卫星，从沃森（Thomas Watson）的IBM到通用汽车。
人造卫星（前苏联制造）
It continued the efforts, begun in 1961, by Project OSCAR—a US-based group that built and launched the very first nongovernmental satellite just four years after Sputnik.
它延续了1961年由奥斯卡计划开始的行动。奥斯卡计划是一个总部设在美国的组织，在人造卫星“斯普特尼克”之后仅四年就制造并发射了第一颗非政府卫星。
The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.
第一个立方卫星是在2000年代初创建的，目的是使斯坦福大学的研究生能够设计、建造、测试和操作具有与苏联人造卫星类似功能的航天器。
In 1957, the Soviets launched Sputnik 1 into outer space.
前苏联于1957年发射了“伴侣1号”人造外星到了外太空。
The eighty-three kilogram satellite, called Sputnik, had two radios that sent signals as it circled the world.
VOA : special.2009.06.10
The Soviet successes with its Sputnik satellites caused the United States to change its space plans.
VOA : special.2009.06.10
The attempt was made on December sixth, soon after the first two Sputnik launches.
VOA : special.2009.06.10
The Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4th 1957.
His advisers fret that federal research and development has fallen sharply since the Sputnik era.
More than anything, though, he was drawn to science by the launch of Sputnik in 1957.