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Echo 1
NASA passive communications satellite, reentered in 1968. Echo 1 was launched on August 12, 1960 aboard a Thor Delta from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: reentered (orbital decay) (May 24, 1968).
COSPAR 1960 IOT 1NORAD 49United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- Echo 1
- Payload designation
- NASA A-11
- International designator
- 1960 IOT 1
- NORAD catalog number
- 49
- GCAT identifier
- S00049
- UN registration
- A/AC.105/INF.001
Mission
- Mission type
- Communications
- Use
- Civil government
- Program
- Echo
- Owner
- NASA LaRC
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- G T Schjeldahl Inc.
- Platform (bus)
- Echo 100'
Launch
- Date
- August 12, 1960 · 09:39 UTC
- Launch record
- 1960 IOTSuccess
- Rocket
- Thor Delta
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC17A
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- LEO/I
- Perigee
- 1,517 km
- Apogee
- 1,684 km
- Inclination
- 47.24°
- Status
- Reentered (orbital decay)
- Status date
- May 24, 1968
- Last known active
- 1960
- End of operations
- 1960
Size
- Mass
- 75 kg
- Dry mass
- 60 kg
- Length
- 0.4 m
- Diameter
- 0.70 m
- Span
- 30.0 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q4533325 (CC0).