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Trailblazer 1g
Trailblazer 1 · Test Flight
1961Unknown Pad, Wallops Flight Facility
Mission
An experiment where an actual 'artificial meteorite' was flown. This was a 5.8 g steel pellet, which was driven into the atmosphere at 6 km/sec by a 'seventh stage', a shaped charge that accelerated the pellet after burnout of the rocket's six stage. This experiment provided a known reference by which the size of actual meteoroids could be measured according to the luminance of their trails.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Trailblazer 1
- Orbit
- Sub
- Pad
- Unknown Pad
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2