[DOC] [TLE] Early History - First Satellites - JPL - NASA [PAR] JPL's canister-shaped Explorer 1 satellite formed the nose of the rocket. On 
January 31, 1958, Explorer 1 launched and became the first U.S. satellite, using 
its... [DOC] [TLE] Explorer Information - NASA History Homepage [PAR] The First United States Satellite and Space Launch Vehicle ... It was designed 
and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California ... was 
confirmed by Explorer-III, which was launched by a Jupiter-C on 26 March 1958. 
... The Jupiter-C rocket was originally developed to test the ablative re-entry nose 
cone of the... [DOC] [TLE] Explorer 1 - Wikipedia [PAR] Explorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States, launched as part of its 
participation in the ... Explorer 1 was designed and built by the Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory (JPL), ... The Juno I rocket was launched January 31, 1958, putting 
Explorer 1 into ... Here too, a full-scale Explorer 1 is on display, but this one is a 
mockup. [DOC] [TLE] Corona (satellite) - Wikipedia [PAR] The Corona program was a series of American strategic reconnaissance 
satellites produced ... The name of this program is sometimes seen as "CORONA
", but its actual ... In FY1958, WS-117L was funded by the AF at a level of US
$108.2 million .... Coronas were launched by a Thor-Agena rocket, which used a 
Thor first... [DOC] [TLE] Model Rockets on Mars (1998) | WIRED [PAR] Jun 21, 2013 ... Image: NASA JPL ... In its April 1998 design iteration, JPL had a single launch 
vehicle ... on the U.S. Navy's 1958 PILOT air-launched micro-satellite booster 
design, ... pivot the little rocket onto the top of the solar array and point its nose ... 
The first stage, which would loft the MicroMAV above most of Mars's... [DOC] [TLE] The Space Race - Rocket Science, The Race Begins, America in ... [PAR] Photo by: blinow61 ... 17 Determined to build such a device, Goddard began to 
design rockets. ... In 1958, when JPL became affiliated with the newly created 
NASA, it assumed the ... The Soviet victory was seen as America's failure. ... 
While the Americans were addressing the challenges of the first U.S. Mars 
mission, the... [DOC] [TLE] The Black Knight Satellite Mystery | Astronotes - Armagh Planetarium [PAR] Jul 18, 2013 ... The first apparent part of this story begins with signals heard by ... (Image credit: 
NASA/JPL-Caltech.) ... At the time the US Discoverer research satellite 
programme was ... These images are often labelled as the most definite proof of 
this ... the dark satellite, however, there really was a Black Knight rocket. [DOC] [TLE] Chronology - Rocket and Space Technology [PAR] Sergei Korolev is appointed chief designer of Department No. ... to launch an 
artificial satellite, Vanguard, results in an explosion on the launch pad. 1958 ... 
Project Mercury, the first U.S. space flight program, is established. ... The Soviet 
Luna 3 probe returns the first pictures of the lunar far side with 70% photo 
coverage. [DOC] [TLE] The Delta II rocket carrying the Phoenix Mars - Newsday [PAR] Jul 31, 2012 ... The Delta II rocket carrying the Phoenix Mars lander lifts off at Cape ... The Jupiter
-C missile, with America's first satellite Explorer attached at its nose, takes off in a 
... This May 1958 photo shows a U.S. Army Jupiter missile standing on its ... Here 
it is shown in orbit at the end of its mission in 1979 when it... [DOC] [TLE] Part II of "Von Braun's 50-Year-Old Secret" - The Enterprise Mission [PAR] By the totally unexpected orbital performance of "his" first US satellite. ... 
implications of Explorer I's astonishing "anti-gravity" behavior for these past ..... 
experiment" that night in January, 1958 ... some ~ 20 years before DePalma ... 
Von Braun and JPL (which designed this rotating, solid-propellant upper stage 
configuration . [DOC] [TLE] The Great

Question: Designed by JPL, the USA's first of these is at the nose of the rocket in the 1958 photo seen here
Answer: Satellite