Trailblazer 1 | Trailblazer 1g

Trailblazer 1 | Trailblazer 1g

Unknown Pad
Wallops Island, Virginia, USA

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA have many launch facilities but most are inactive. The most commonly used pad will be LC-39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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Trailblazer 1g

An experiment where an actual 'artificial meteorite' was flown. This was a 5.8 g steel pellet, which was driven into the atmosphere at 6 km/sec by a 'seventh stage', a shaped charge that accelerated the pellet after burnout of the rocket's six stage. This experiment provided a known reference by which the size of actual meteoroids could be measured according to the luminance of their trails.

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Trailblazer 1


Height 17.10 Meters

Max Stages 4

Mass To GTO 0 kg

Liftoff Thrust 365 kN

Diameter 0.58 Meters

Mass To LEO 0 kg

Liftoff Mass 3 Tonnes


Launch Success 1

Consecutive Success 1

Maiden Flight 1959-03-03

Launch Failures 0


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