Echo 1A (commonly called Echo 1), NASA's 30 m aluminized-Mylar passive communications balloon satellite, launched on Thor Delta (Thor 270) from Cape Canaveral LC-17A on 12 August 1960. It successfully reflected microwave signals between California and New Jersey and remained visible as a bright sky object until 1968.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 85 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 12 Thor Delta flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 1960, 09:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1960-009
- Launches in 1960
- 18th of 38
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