1959 · US Navy
Vanguard
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Vanguard is a scientific satellite to measure the Earth's magnetic field, solar X-ray radiation and its effects on the Earth's atmosphere and the near-Earth micrometeoroid environment.
Overview
- Date / time
- June 22, 1959 at 08:16 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 18A
- Mission
- Vanguard
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit