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Explorer 1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 1 Feb 1958, 03:47 am UTC
Rocket: Juno-I (Redstone)
Provider: Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Mission
Type: Test Flight
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 26A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
First successfully launched American satellite. It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen Radiation Belt.