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Project Pilot · Government/Top Secret
1958Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Air launch to Suborbital flight
Mission
The project pilot payloads were small cylindrical satellites. These missions intended to be the first to launch a satellite from an aircraft. They had only a single instrument, a very primitive infrared line scanning device to make IR images of the ground.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- US Navy
- Rocket
- Project Pilot
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2