Not the first to be _launched_, but perhaps the first to be _orbited_: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_%28spacecraft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_

Not the first to be _launched_, but perhaps the first to be _orbited_: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_%28spacecraft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_%28spacecraft%29