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Trailblazer 1g

Trailblazer 1

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Launch Status
Success

Mission


Trailblazer 1g

  • Type: Test Flight
  • Orbit: Suborbital

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.

Location


Unknown Pad

Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

Unknown Pad has witnessed the launch of 8 rockets, including 0 orbital launch attempts, while Wallops Island, Virginia, USA, has been the site for 78 rocket launches.

Unknown Pad

Rocket


National Aeronautics and Space Administration Trailblazer 1

American test vehicle. The rocket’s first three stages would take the upper stage package to a 260 km apogee. The upper stage package was mounted upside-down in relation to the other stages. When it had reached the peak, the three upper stages fired in sequence, ramming the payload, a 13 cm sphere, into the atmosphere at orbital re-entry speeds.

Agency


National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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