1960 in spaceflight

fatal Soviet launch pad disaster

American ballistic missile

soviet space dogs

satellite navigation system

Soviet rocket

series of American strategic reconnaissance satellites

family of American rockets

short-range ballistic missile

first operational ballistic missile deployed by the U.S. Air Force

test flight of the Redstone rocket and Mercury spacecraft

series of two uncrewed Soviet spacecraft

family of American intercontinental ballistic missiles; first operational ICBM

test flight of the Redstone rocket and Mercury spacecraft

first passive communications satellite experiment

overview of spaceflight-related events during the year of 1960

test flight of the Atlas rocket and Mercury spacecraft

family of British research ballistic missiles

U.S. solar X-ray and surveillance satellite

American reconnaissance satellite series

US satellite launched in 1960

American expendable launch system and sounding rocket used in the early 1960s

SOLRAD (short for "solar radiation") was an American series of satellites sponsored by the US Navy in a program to continuously monitor the Sun. SOLRAD was the Naval Research Laboratory's first post-Vanguard satellite.