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Scout B | OFO

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Launch Details

Date: 9 Nov 1970, 06:00 am UTC

Rocket: Scout B (Scout)

Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Mission

Type: Biology

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Area 3A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA

Mission Description

Life-science satellite carrying two bullfrogs and measuring their bioelectric action potential during weightlessness and gravity stimulus obtained by activation of a centrifuge.