1964 · United States Air Force
Echo 2
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The Echo 2 spacecraft was a 41-m balloon of aluminum foil-mylar laminate. Echo 2 was designed as a rigidized passive communications spacecraft for testing propagation, tracking, and communication techniques.
Overview
- Date / time
- January 25, 1964 at 01:59 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E
- Mission
- Echo 2
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit