“First Pass of Echo 1 Satellite Over the Goldstone Tracking Station” was uploaded to Flickr

This photograph shows the first pass of Echo 1, America’s first communications satellite, over the Goldstone Tracking Station managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, in the early morning of Aug. 12, 1960. The movement of the antenna, star trails, and Echo 1 (the long streak in the middle) are visible in this image. via NASA ift.tt/2fkiP12
embiggen by clicking http://flic.kr/p/NuKDoX
First Pass of Echo 1 Satellite Over the Goldstone Tracking Station was taken on October 24, 2016 at 05:37AM