Little Joe was a solid-fueled booster rocket used by NASA for eight launches from 1959-1960 from Wallops Island, Virginia to test the launch escape system and heat shield for Project Mercury capsules.
Specifications
- Thrust
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- Height
- 17 m
- Diameter
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- Launch mass
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- Stages
- 1
- Launch cost
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- LEO capacity
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- GTO capacity
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- GEO capacity
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- SSO capacity
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Vehicle specifications from Launch Library; blanks are unpublished figures.
Flight record
Flights
8
Launches with a definitive outcome
Success rate
37.5%
3 of 8
Current success streak
1
Landings
0
0 attempts · 0 droneship / 0 RTLS
Fastest turnaround
—
Between consecutive booster flights
Counted from padside's own launch record — the same basis as the Stats page.
Launches
- Little Joe | LJ-5B — Success
- Little Joe | LJ-5A — Partial Failure
- Little Joe | LJ-5 — Failure
- Little Joe | LJ-1B — Success
- Little Joe | LJ-2 — Success