Relay 1 (A-15), NASA's first active repeater communications satellite, also carrying radiation-belt experiments. Maiden Thor Delta B flight from Cape Canaveral LC-17A placed it in an elliptical medium orbit; after early power-regulator problems it operated for more than two years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 78 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 9 Thor Delta B flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 1962, 23:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1962-068
- Launches in 1962
- 76th of 81
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