Big Joe 1
capsule reentry test flight during Project Mercury
Facts
16 properties- Instance of
- sub-orbital spaceflight, flight testing[3]
- Country
- United States[2]
- Follows
- Little Joe 1[5]
- Followed by
- Little Joe 6[6]
- Duration
- 780.0[16]
- Part of
- Project Mercury[8]
- Apoapsis
- 153.0[17]
- Carries passengers or cargo
- boilerplate[18]
- Manufacturer
- McDonnell Aircraft Corporation[7]
- Significant event
- rocket launch, landing[13][14]
- Space launch vehicle
- SM-65D Atlas[9]
- Start point
- Cape Canaveral Space Launch Complex 14[15]
- Type of orbit
- sub-orbital spaceflight[10]
- UTC date of spacecraft landing
- September 9, 1959[12]
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- September 9, 1959[11]
🏷️ Also known as
en Atlas-10D
en Big Joe 1
en BJ-1
ar بيج جو 1
de Mercury-Big-Joe 1
ja ビッグ・ジョー1号
nl Big Joe
pl Mercury-Big Joe 1
pt Big Joe
ru Биг Джо
ru Биг Джо-1
🔖 Identifiers · 1
- Freebase ID
- /m/0365hv
🔗 Connections
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Carries passengers or cargo 1
Country 1
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Manufacturer 1
Part of 1
Preceded by (successor) 1
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Summary
Big Joe 1 is a sub-orbital spaceflight[1].