Beacon 1, a NACA/Langley inflatable 12-foot mylar balloon satellite for air-density measurement and naked-eye tracking, launched on the final Juno I from Cape Canaveral LC-5. The payload separated early and the upper stages broke up; the balloon never reached orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 6th
- of 6 Juno-I flights
- Date and time
- 23 October 1958, 03:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Juno-I
- Builder
- Chrysler
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Target
- Launches in 1958
- 24th of 28