Trailblazer·National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Trailblazer 1
retired
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Specifications
- Status
- retired
- Height
- 17.1 m
- Diameter
- 0.58 m
- Mass
- 3,000 kg
- Stages
- 4
- Thrust
- 365 kN
- First flight
- 1959-03-03
- Total launches
- 1
- Success / Fail
- 1 / 0
American test vehicle. The rocket's first three stages would take the upper stage package to a 260 km apogee. The upper stage package was mounted upside-down in relation to the other stages. When it had reached the peak, the three upper stages fired in sequence, ramming the payload, a 13 cm sphere, into the atmosphere at orbital re-entry speeds.