Question: In a 1999 film directed by Joe Johnston, Jake Gyllenhaal played a NASA engineer that was inspired by the launch of what satellite?

Context articles: Jacob Matijevic
Jack Kinzler
Hidden Figures
Stephen Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal filmography
Homer Hickam
John Muratore
October Sky
Nine Stories Productions
Matijevic Hill

Jacob (Richard) Matijevic, also known as "Jake" Matijevic, (3 November 1947 – 20 August 2012) was an American NASA engineer of Croatian origin who worked on Mars Exploration Rovers.
 Dr. Matijevic was involved in developing the ""Sojourner"", ""Spirit"", ""Opportunity"" and ""Curiosity"" rovers.
 For his contributions to the rover projects, NASA named several landmarks on the planet Mars (including ""Matijevic Hill"" and ""Jake Matijevic"" rock) after him.
Jack Kinzler (January 9, 1920 – March 4, 2014) was a NASA engineer, the former chief of the Technical Services Center at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, known within the agency as Mr. Fix It.
 He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for creating the solar shield that saved Skylab after the original micrometeoroid shield was lost during launch of the station.
 His other contributions included the flagstaff and plaques used on the Moon for each of the Apollo program Moon landings and the special six iron golf club head with which Apollo 14 astronaut Alan Shepard made his two famous golf drives on the Moon.
Hidden Figures is a 2016 American biographical drama film directed by Theodore Melfi and written by Melfi and Allison Schroeder, based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee Shetterly about black female mathematicians who worked at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) during the Space Race.
 The film stars Taraji P. Henson as Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated flight trajectories for Project Mercury and other missions.
 The film also features Octavia Spencer as NASA supervisor Dorothy Vaughan and Janelle Monáe as NASA engineer Mary Jackson, with Kevin Costner, Kirsten Dunst, Jim Parsons, Glen Powell, and Mahershala Ali in supporting roles.
Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal ( ; born October 4, 1949) is an American film director and poet.
 He is the father of actors Jake Gyllenhaal and Maggie Gyllenhaal.
Jake Gyllenhaal is an American actor who has appeared in over 35 motion pictures (including some yet to be released), three television programs, one commercial, and four music videos.
 He made his film debut in 1991 with a minor role in the comedy-drama "City Slickers".
 In 1993, he appeared in "A Dangerous Woman", a motion picture adaptation directed by Gyllenhaal's father Stephen Gyllenhaal and co-written by his mother Naomi Foner that was based on the novel of the same name by Mary McGarry Morris.
 In the following year, he portrayed Robin Williams' son in an episode of the police procedural television series ""; the episode was directed by his father.
 In 1999, Gyllenhaal starred in the Joe Johnston-directed drama "October Sky"; the film was received warmly by critics, and Gyllenhaal's portrayal of the NASA engineer Homer Hickam was praised.
Homer Hadley Hickam Jr. (born February 19, 1943) is an American author, Vietnam veteran, and a former NASA engineer.
 His memoir "Rocket Boys" was a "New York Times" Best Seller and was the basis for the 1999 film "October Sky".
 Hickam has also written a number of best-selling memoirs and novels including the "Josh Thurlow" historical fiction novels.
 His books have been translated into many languages.
John F. Muratore is an American engineer, former professor of Aviation Systems at the University of Tennessee Space Institute in Tullahoma, TN and current Director of Launch Operations for Launch Complex 39A at SpaceX at Cape Canaveral Fl.
 He is a former NASA engineer and Program Manager, well known in the aerospace circles for his gregarious and unconventional style.
October Sky is a 1999 American biographical film directed by Joe Johnston, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Cooper, Chris Owen, and Laura Dern.
 It is based on the true story of Homer H. Hickam, Jr., a coal miner's son who was inspired by the launch of "Sputnik 1" in 1957 to take up rocketry against his father's wishes and eventually became a NASA engineer.
Nine Stories Productions is a New York-based film, theater and television production company founded by Jake Gyllenhaal and Riva Marker in 2015.
 Nine Stories has a first-look deal with Bold Films, the company behind "Whiplash, Drive," and "Nightcrawler", the latter of which Gyllenhaal starred in and produced.
 Gyllenhaal won an Independent Spirit Award for producing "Nightcrawler" and was an Executive Producer on David Ayer’s "End of Watch."
 Marker produced Cary Fukunaga’s critically acclaimed child soldier drama "Beasts of No Nation" and was an Executive Producer on Academy Award nominated "The Kids Are All Right."
Matijevic Hill, named after American NASA engineer Jacob "Jake" Matijevic (1947 - 2012), is a hill located on "Cape York", itself on the western rim of Endeavour Crater lying within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars.
 It was discovered by the Opportunity rover, and named by NASA on September 28, 2012.
 The "approximate" site coordinates are: .