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Relay 1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 13 Dec 1962, 11:30 pm UTC
Rocket: Thor Delta B (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Elliptical Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Relay 1 was principally a communications satellite. Included in its payload were radiation experiments designed to map the earth's radiation belts.