EXPLORER 7 LAUNCH, JUNO 2 ROCKET, Oct. 13, 1959

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BEAUTY SHOT OF THIS LAUNCH IN SLOW-MOTION 16mm. Explorer 7 (1959-009A) was launched October 13, 1959 at 10:36 a.m. Eastern Time by a Juno II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to an orbit of 573 km by 1073 km and inclination of 50.27°.[1] It was designed to measure solar x-ray and Lyman-alpha flux, trapped energetic particles, and heavy primary cosmic rays. Also Secondary objectives included collecting data on micrometeoroid penetration and molecular sputtering and studying the earth-atmosphere heat balance. The Explorer 7 micrometeorite impacts studies can be found under the nasa paper "RESULTS OF MICROMETEORITE PENETRATION EXPERIMENT ON THE EXPLORER VII SATELLITE[1959 IOTA} LaGow and L. Secretan Goddard Space Flight Center. INFO WIKIPEDIA, Teaser of Footagevault.

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