Trailblazer 1 | Trailblazer 1g
National Aeronautics and Space Administration · Trailblazer 1 · Unknown Pad, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration's 25th launch · 6th this year
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Window: Apr 21, 05:56 – Apr 21, 05:56 UTC
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Trailblazer 1g
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.
Test Flight · Suborbital (Sub)
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