Sputnik

基本解释

That is expected to cause widespread hand-wringing, akin to America’s “Sputnik moment,” when the Soviet Union beat it to become the first country to launch a satellite.
这无疑会像美国因苏联发射了第一颗人造卫星而开始卫星竞赛一样在日本国内引发大规模的焦虑情绪。
He has said recently that he is guided by a “north star”, that America is passing through another “Sputnik moment”, that he intends to reform the tax code and tackle the deficit.
最近，他谈到他以“北极星”为指引，美国正在错失另一个“人造卫星的时机”，他计划改革免税代码解决赤字问题。
After all, the government-owned reactor was fired up in 1957, the same year that the Soviet Union launched Sputnik and Elvis Presley starred in “Jailhouse Rock”.
毕竟，这个政府所有的反应堆是在1957年就启用了的，那一年苏联发射了人造地球卫星，猫王主演了《摇滚监狱》。

The eighty-three kilogram satellite, called Sputnik, had two radios that sent signals as it circled the world.
The Soviet successes with its Sputnik satellites caused the United States to change its space plans.
The attempt was made on December sixth, soon after the first two Sputnik launches.

The Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4th 1957.
ECONOMIST: The race to the moon

any of a series of unmanned Soviet satellites, Sputnik 1 (launched in 1957) being the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth