August 22, 1958 at 12:00 AM UTC
Air launch to Suborbital flight
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August 22, 1958 at 12:00 AM UTC
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Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
Air launch to Suborbital flight · 35.6856, -117.6941
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.
Height
4.4 m
Diameter
0.76 m
LEO capacity
1 kg
Successful launches
0
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
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