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== Flight history == * '''September 20, 1956''': Jupiter-C RS-27, lifted an 86.5-lb (39.2 kg) payload (including a 30-lb (14 kg) dummy [[satellite]]) to an altitude of 680 mi (1,100 km), a speed of 16,000 mph (7 km/s), and a range of 3,300 mi (5,300 km) from [[Cape Canaveral Air Force Station|Cape Canaveral]], Florida.<ref name="expinfo"/><ref name="skyrocket">{{Cite web |title=Jupiter-C |url=https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_lau_det/jupiter-c.htm |access-date=2023-10-14 |website=Gunter's Space Page |language=en}}</ref> * '''May 15, 1957''': Jupiter-C RS-34, lifted a 300 lb (140 kg) scale Jupiter ablative nose cone to an altitude of 350 mi (560 km) and a range of 710 mi (1,100 km).<ref name="expinfo"/><ref name="skyrocket" /> * '''August 8, 1957''': Jupiter-C RS-40, lifted a 1/3-scale Jupiter nose cone to an altitude of 285 mi (460 km) and a range of 1,330 mi (2,140 km); Juno I (four-stage configuration).<ref name="expinfo"/><ref name="skyrocket" />
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