Skin put around early satellite (7)
I believe the answer is:
sputnik
'early satellite' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'skin put around' is the wordplay.
'around' is an anagram indicator.
'skin'+'put'='skinput'
'skinput' with letters rearranged gives 'SPUTNIK'.
(Other definitions for sputnik that I've seen before include "space traveller" , "High-flier" , "UK pints (anag)" , "Soviet space orbiter" , "First artificial earth satellite" .)