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Satellite testing at Langley Research Center

97-730
Accession Number
97-730
8x10 inches (21x26 cm)
Black & White
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NAID 350900978
Related Collection
Webb, James E. Papers
Keywords
Space sciences
HST Keywords
National Aeronautics And Space Administration; Langley Research Center - Langley Air Force Base, Virgnia; Webb, James E. - Ref. to
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

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Description

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration conducted ground inflation tests on a 100-foot diameter, inflatable spherical satellite in a Naval hangar facility near Weeksville, North Carolina. The ground tests were preliminary to the orbiting of Echo I from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on August 12, 1960. Echo I, the world's first passive communications satellite, was designed and developed by the NASA Langley Research Center.

Date(s)
1960