Echo 1
COSPAR 1960-009A · NORAD 49
📋 A written introduction is coming — for now this page shows official values only.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launch date
- 1960-08-12
- Status (SATCAT)
- decayed
- Decay date
- 1968-05-24
- Launch site code
- AFETR
- Owner code
- US
- COSPAR ID
- 1960-009A
- NORAD ID
- 49
Source:NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive · checked 2026-11-02 ↗CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
Orbit
- Period
- 92.7 min
- Inclination
- 47.19°
- Apogee
- 419 km
- Perigee
- 394 km
- Orbit center code
- EA
Source:CelesTrak (data from USSPACECOM / 18 SDS) · checked 2026-11-02 ↗
In everyday life
- It circles Earth every 93 minutes — about 15.5 orbits a day (CelesTrak).
- It re-entered the atmosphere on 1968-05-24 (CelesTrak).
- Someone born in its launch year (1960) turns 66 this year.
Worked out from this object's official values.