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CBS Radio presents the news from Washington. Here is Bob Peerpoint.

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Another larger Sputnik with a dog named Curly aboard is now whirling around the earth 1,000 miles out in space.

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The Russians launched an 1,100 pound satellite late last night and so far both Sputnik 2 and its K9 passenger are reported doing well.

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Radio Moscow started broadcasting time schedules for its latest satellite a short while ago with the announcement that Sputnik 2 will pass over Washington DC in just a few minutes from now.

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Its radio signals can be picked up on 20 and 40 megacycles as it circles the earth once every hour and 42 minutes.

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According to Soviet scientists this new satellite will be more easily visible than Sputnik 1 even though its orbit is nearly 400 miles further out in space.

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That's because Sputnik 2 is between 6 and 7 times as large as Sputnik 1.

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This huge size is what is impressing most scientists around the world today.

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Dr. J. Allen Heineck, well known associate director of the Smithsonian Observatory at Cambridge, Massachusetts, was asked if the half ton weight of Sputnik 2 indicated the Russians might have a war rocket powerful enough to reach this continent from the Soviet Union.

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It certainly indicates they have the capabilities of launching an intercontinental ballistic missile, replied Dr. Heineck.

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Dr. John S. Reinhardt, also with the Smithsonian Observatory, commented after studying figures on the new Soviet satellite, I firmly believe the Russians could reach the moon in a few days.

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But while scientists are admiring this latest Russian accomplishment, others, particularly the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, are worrying over the fate of the dog on board.

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Her name in Russian is Kudriyavka, which means curly, and she is a husky, the same type of husky used by the Eskimos in Alaska.

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Curly, say the Russians, is well trained for this assignment. She's used to having special instruments strapped to her body which record and transmit earthward her heartbeat, blood pressure and respiration.

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She has been shot skyward and parachuted down safely several times before, though not quite so far up and down.

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Scientists agree all this information is extremely useful in making arrangements to send humans into outer space, a feat which American observers are predicting the Russians would like to try soon.

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Perhaps that depends on whether Curly gets back to earth safely again or not, and radio Moscow hints that she may.

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One Russian scientist says that early radio signals indicate Curly is doing well up there, and he adds firmly, the dog is safe.