Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 18B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Mercury-Scout 1, or MS-1, was a United States spacecraft intended to test tracking stations for Project Mercury flights. The launch of Mercury-Scout 1 on November 1, 1961 was unsuccessful, and the satellite failed to achieve orbit.
