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June 30, 1961, failed when the third stage of the launch vehicle did
not ignite. The second attempt placed S-55A in orbit on August 25,
fourth stage and which will go into orbit as an integral part of the
Island, with injection into orbit occurring east of Puerto Rico some
Initial apogee will occur over the Indian Ocean just west of Aus-
degrees North and South of the equator, passing over the latitude
( SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES
of momentum.
eries that there are showers of this cosmic dust. Meteors of vari-
and other substances. Some are derived from the asteroids (possibly
the remains of an exploded planet) which revolve around the sun be-
tween Mars and Jupiter. Those which are in elliptical orbits per-
iodically cross the earth.'s path, and impact on the earth or moon.
into eccentric orbit, melt, decay, and form comet tails as they
single day.
interstellar material0
future space flight systems. They need to know more about micro-
tined for long missions and to design such systems as the huge rad-
nuclear reactors,
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The five micrometeoroid detectors in the satellite will include
24¼ square feet of area exposed to the penetration hazard; and cad-
lite will determine what protection solar cells in future space ex-
periments will require. Five cells are shingled for each group:
one group will be unprotected, three groups will have 6-mil glass
slides covering the sensitive area, and one group will have a three
ceiving stations.
skin samnples and brealk the foil circuits will cause a chl-ncj.(', in thc
wound with 2-mil wire ar ' 32 cards with 3-mi2. wires, providing a total).
.i-s sp;we particles sttike the grids and break the wound wire at --A1Y
on the peiiet,:ation haazazd, The wire grids occupy the aft porti~onl of
structure.
Cadmium-sulfide cells: Two of these detectors, also developed by
the Goddard Space Flight Center, will be mounted in the nose cone
ens the ultra-sensitive detector will penetrate the Mylar film and
impacting micrometeoroids.
mounted on sounding boards located on the nose cone, Some are mounted
on the pressurized cell area around the center of the satellite, The
from this portion of the experiment is that the lower momentum sensi-
tivtty level emj,*'.oyed may afford some correlation between this type
ground and after one minute of data transmission will be turned off
LAUNCH VEHICLE
drogen peroxide jets, This mcL. has ^<'so been used in a cluster in
stage on the Delta launch vehicle and was the first fully developed
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TRACKING AND DATA ACQUISITION
indicated:
WALLOPS STATION
Robert T. ruffy, launch operations.
NASA HEADQUARTERS
Office of Advanced Research and Technology: C. T. D'Aiutolo,
Program Officer; Clotaire Wood, Chief of Flight Vehicle Experi-
ments; and E. 0. Pearson, Assistant Directors Office of Space
Vehicles.
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