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Trailblazer 1 | Trailblazer 1g

National Aeronautics and Space AdministrationUnknown Pad — Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).

mission

Name
Trailblazer 1g
Type
Test Flight
Target orbit
Suborbital (Sub)

An experiment where an actual 'artificial meteorite' was flown. This was a 5.8 g steel pellet, which was driven into the atmosphere at 6 km/sec by a 'seventh stage', a shaped charge that accelerated the pellet after burnout of the rocket's six stage. This experiment provided a known reference by which the size of actual meteoroids could be measured according to the luminance of their trails.

schedule

NET (no earlier than)
Window opens
Window closes
Last updated

vehicle & provider

Rocket
Trailblazer 1
Family
Trailblazer
Variant
1
Provider
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Type
Government
Country
USA

launch site

Pad
Unknown Pad
Location
Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Country
USA
Timezone
America/New_York