Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

Similar

STS-124 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

STS-130 - LAUNCH - Public domain NASA photogrpaph

Finding a Place. NASA public domain image colelction.

TITUSVILLE, Fla. - Inside the Astrotech payload processing facility in Titusville, Fla. near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, technicians secure the payload faring containing the two Radiation Belt Storm Probes, or RBSP, spacecraft on to a transporter for the move to the launch complex. NASA’s RBSP mission will help us understand the sun’s influence on Earth and near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on various scales of space and time. RBSP will begin its mission of exploration of Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts and the extremes of space weather after its liftoff aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. Liftoff is targeted for Aug. 23, 2012. For more information, visit http://www.nasa.gov/rbsp Photo credit: NASA/ Kim Shiflett KSC-2012-4342

Space Shuttle Discovery: STS-64 launch view

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- On Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the 197-foot-tall United Launch Alliance Atlas V-551 launch vehicle makes a slow, steady approach to Space Launch Complex 41 on its move from the Vertical Integration Facility. Atop the rocket is NASA's Juno spacecraft, enclosed in its payload fairing. Liftoff is planned during a launch window which extends from 11:34 a.m. to 12:43 p.m. EDT on Aug. 5. The solar-powered spacecraft will orbit Jupiter's poles 33 times to find out more about the gas giant's origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere and investigate the existence of a solid planetary core. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Juno mission for the principal investigator, Scott Bolton, of Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. The Juno mission is part of the New Frontiers Program managed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, built the spacecraft. Launch management for the mission is the responsibility of NASA's Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. For more information, visit www.nasa.gov/juno. Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett KSC-2011-6187

Jupiter-C, the first American Satellite, Explorer 1 launcher

description

Summary

Juno I, a slightly modified Jupiter-C launch vehicle, shortly before the January 31, 1958 launch of America's first satellite, Explorer I. The Jupiter-C, developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun and the rocket team at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, consisted of a modified version of the Redstone rocket's first stage and two upper stages of clustered Baby Sergeant rockets developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

label_outline

Tags

marshall space flight center

first american satellite

baby sergeant rockets

wernher von braun

redstone arsenal

jet propulsion laboratory

rocket technology

date_range

Date

31/01/1958

place

Location

Marshall Spaceflight Center, Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama, United States, 35808, 34.63076, -86.66505

Google Map of 34.6307645, -86.665052

create

Source

NASA

link

Link

https://images.nasa.gov/

copyright

Copyright info

Public Domain Dedication (CC0)

Explore more

marshall space flight center

first american satellite

baby sergeant rockets

wernher von braun

redstone arsenal

jet propulsion laboratory

rocket technology