Talk:Echo satellite

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Which satellite is shown on this photo? The photo is dated 1965, therefore it must be after the Echo 1's and Echo 2. --Abdull 14:01, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I asked the same question to the GRIN office at NASA, and after some research they came up with the idea that the image may not show an Echo satellite but more likely a PAGEOS satellite, see [1] for another image of PAGEOS. The NASA employee also told me the GRIN archive will be updated with new meta information for the image. When this will have happened, the wrong image should be taken off the article. --Abdull 21:05, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Done. --Abdull 16:54, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

The Summer 2007 Edition of Invention and Technology Volume 23, Number 1 has an article about the Echo Satellite. On page 40 of the article it states the thickeness of the mylar was 0.0005" or 1/2 mil thick (0.0127 mm). This is at odds with the thickness reported on the page. This is a valuable article which has much useful information which could be incorporated into this page. -- Randwulf

[edit] which should wikipedia name as "first communication satellite"?

In one corner we have Project SCORE launched 18 December 1958, in the other we have Echo satellite launched August 12 1960.Zebulin (talk) 19:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)