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Project Pilot | NOTS 4

US Navy | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 25, 1958, midnight
Status: Launch Failure
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.

Low Earth Orbit
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Juno-I | Explorer 5

Chrysler | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 24, 1958, 6:17 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Explorer 5 was a US satellite designed to study the van allen radiation belts, however, the launch failed after the first stage collided with the second stage.

Medium Earth Orbit
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Project Pilot | NOTS 3

US Navy | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 22, 1958, midnight
Status: Launch Failure
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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Thor Able I | Able I (Pioneer)

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Aug. 17, 1958, 12:18 p.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

The first pioneer orbiter, pioneer 0 was a lunar orbiter intended to enter a lunar orbit for observation. However, the mission failed 77 seconds into launch.

Lunar Orbit
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Project Pilot | NOTS 2

US Navy | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
Aug. 12, 1958, midnight
Status: Launch Failure
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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Juno-I | Explorer 4

Chrysler | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
July 26, 1958, 3 p.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

An American satellite in order to study the Van Allen radiation belts and the effects of nuclear explosions upon these belts.

Medium Earth Orbit
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Project Pilot | NOTS 1

US Navy | United States of America
Air launch to Suborbital flight
July 25, 1958, midnight
Status: Launch Failure
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.

Low Earth Orbit
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Vanguard | Vanguard

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
June 26, 1958, 5 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Small satellite used to test the Vanguard three-stage launch vehicle.

Low Earth Orbit
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Vanguard | Vanguard

Lockheed Martin | United States of America
Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
May 28, 1958, 3:46 a.m.
Status: Launch Failure
Mission:

Small satellite used to test the Vanguard three-stage launch vehicle.

Low Earth Orbit
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Sputnik 8A91 | D1- 2

Energia | Russia
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan
May 15, 1958, 7 a.m.
Status: Launch Successful
Mission:

First complex scientific satellite to reach orbit.

Low Earth Orbit
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