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Explorer 1

Juno-I · Test Flight

1958Launch Complex 26A, Cape Canaveral

Mission

First successfully launched American satellite. It was the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen Radiation Belt.

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Mission Facts

Provider
ABMA
Rocket
Juno-I
Orbit
LEO
Pad
Launch Complex 26A
NET precision
Year
Data source
LL2
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