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Vanguard

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Launch Details

Date: 22 June 1959, 08:16 pm 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

Vanguard is a scientific satellite to measure the Earth's magnetic field, solar X-ray radiation and its effects on the Earth's atmosphere and the near-Earth micrometeoroid environment.