ABMA Juno-I Explorer 1

Name: ABMA Juno-I Explorer 1
Start: 1958-02-01T03:47:56.000Z
Location: Launch Complex 26A

Juno-I

Status

Success

Date

1 FEB 1958

03:47

Launch Provider

Army Ballistic Missile Agency

Launch Pad

Launch Complex 26A

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Overview

First successfully launched American satellite. It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen Radiation Belt.

Rocket

Juno-I

Mission Type

Test Flight

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

The Juno I was a four-stage American booster rocket which launched America's first satellite, Explorer 1 in 1958. A member of thr redstone family, it was derived from the Jupiter-C sounding rocket.

Height

21.2 m

Diameter

1.78 m

Launch Mass

29 T

Thrust

416 kN