SCORE

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 18 Dec 1958, 11:02 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas B (Atlas)

Provider: US Army

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 11, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

SCORE or Signal Communications by Orbiting RElay was the world first purpose built communications satellite. It provided a second test of a communications relay system after the first being provided by Pioneer 1.