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Scout X-4 | FR-1

FR-1

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Launch Details

Date: 6 Dec 1965, 09:05 pm UTC

Rocket: Scout X-4 (Scout)

Provider: National Center of Space Research

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

The FR 1 (France 1) spacecraft was a small spacecraft carrying two experiments. One was designed to observe VLF signals from earth-based transmitters, and the other was an electron density probe measuring electron concentration at the satellite.