Payload
ECHO 1
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ECHO 1 is a United States payload satellite, launched on August 12, 1960 into LEO. It has since re-entered the atmosphere.
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Launch
- Launch date
- August 12, 1960 at 09:39 AM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Echo 1
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- LEO
- Apoapsis
- 419 km
- Periapsis
- 394 km
- Inclination
- 47.19°
- Orbital period
- 92.7 min
Spacecraft
- Operator
- United States
- Launch mass
- 56 kg
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1960-009A
- NORAD catalog №
- 49
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 24, 1968
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 24, 1968
- Time in service
- 7.8 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed