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Vanguard

Launch Failure

Launch Details

Date: 14 Apr 1959, 02:49 am UTC

Rocket: Vanguard

Provider: US Navy

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 18A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

The Vanguard satellite was a 13 inch spherical satellite which contained a precise magnetometer to map the Earth's magnetic field. The satellite was lost together with the Vanguard Balloon when the Vanguard launch vehicle second stage was damaged during staging.