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FIRE 2

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Launch Details

Date: 22 May 1965, 09:55 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas D (Atlas)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Materials Science

Orbit: Suborbital

Pad: Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

FIRE (Flight Investigation of Re-Entry) was a high-speed reentry heat research program to obtain data on materials, heating rates, and radio signal attenuation on spacecraft reentering the atmosphere at speeds of about 24,500 miles per hour.