Project SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) on Atlas-B 10B from Cape Canaveral LC-11. World's first purpose-built communications satellite and first successful Atlas orbital use; it broadcast President Eisenhower's Christmas peace message from low Earth orbit for about 12 days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 68 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only SM-65B Atlas flight
- Date and time
- 18 December 1958, 23:02 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65B Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 11, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1958-006
- Launches in 1958
- 28th of 28
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