Aug 14 1959

From The Space Library

With Army as executive agent of ABMA-JPL Project, Beacon satellite launched by Juno II failed to go into orbit.

While EXPLORER VI satellite was passing over Mexico at an altitude of about 17,000 miles, it successfully transmitted a crude picture of a sunlit, crescent-shaped portion of the North Central Pacific Ocean. The area of earth photographed was 20,000 square miles.