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Explorer 6
Thor Able III · Earth Science
1959Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral
Mission
Explorer 6 was an American satellite designed to study trapped radiation of various energies, galactic cosmic rays, geomagnetism, radio propagation and the flux of micrometeorites. It also tested a scanning device designed for photographing the Earth's cloud cover, and transmitted the first pictures of Earth from a satellite.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Thor Able III
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
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