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FIRE 1
Atlas D · Materials Science
1964Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral
Mission
FIRE (Flight Investigation of Re-Entry) was a high-speed reentry heat research program to obtain data on materials, heating rates, and radio signal attenuation on spacecraft reentering the atmosphere at speeds of about 24,500 miles per hour.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Atlas D
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Launch Complex 12
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2