Explorer I Launch

The Explorer I Earth satellite launches at Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 31, 1958. The mission was fired by a Jupiter C rocket, which was developed at Army Ballistic Missile Agency (present-day Marshall Space Flight Center) in Huntsville, Madison County.

Launch of Explorer I, first U.S. earth satellite, carried by a Jupiter-C rocket from Redstone Arsenal
Courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Launch of Explorer I, first U.S. earth satellite, carried by a Jupiter-C rocket from Redstone Arsenal