Jupiter

Thor and Jupiter IRBMs. Although originally scheduled for deployment in the early 1960s, these programs were accelerated, with Thor being deployed to England and Jupiter to Italy and Turkey in 1958. Thor and Jupiter were both single-stage, liquid-fueled missiles with inertial guidance systems and warheads of 1.5…

…during the 1950s developed the Jupiter IRBM, which was in many ways a derivative of the V-2 rocket. A version of the Jupiter was the launch vehicle for the first U.S. artificial satellite, Explorer 1, launched on January 31, 1958. Another V-2 derivative, called Redstone, was used to launch the…