San Marco 1 (San Marco A), Italy’s first satellite, launched on a Scout X-4 from Wallops Island by an Italian crew under the Italian–U.S. San Marco program for ionospheric and atmospheric research (ion probe and electron-content beacon).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 116 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 12 Scout X-4 flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1964, 20:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-4
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1964-084
- Launches in 1964
- 97th of 100
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