Echo 2 Mission
Launch Status
Success
Date & Time
25 Jan 1964, 1:59pm
UTC
Location
Pad
Space Launch Complex 2E
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
Echo 2
Mission Type
Communications
Destination
Low Earth Orbit
The Echo 2 spacecraft was a 41-m balloon of aluminum foil-mylar laminate. Echo 2 was designed as a rigidized passive communications spacecraft for testing propagation, tracking, and communication techniques.
Updated: Jan 3, 7:54pm UTC
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