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Mercury-Scout 1 or MS-1 was a United States spacecraft intended to test tracking stations for Project Mercury flights. It grew out of a May 5 1961 NASA proposal to use Scout rockets to launch small satellites to evaluate the worldwide Mercury Tracking Network in preparation for manned orbital missions. The launch of Mercury-Scout 1 on November 1 1961 was unsuccessful and the satellite failed to achieve orbit.Electricity came from 1500 watt-hours stored in chemical batteries.
