Vanguard (rocket) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Vanguard rocket was intended to be the first launch vehicle the United States would use to place a satellite into orbit. Instead, the Sputnik crisis caused by the surprise launch of Sputnik 1 le...
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Washington - Mar 17, 2003 - Vanguard I, the world's longest orbiting man-made satellite, built by the Naval Research Laboratory and launched at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1958, will mark its 45th year in space on March 17. In the years following Vanguard's launch, the small satellite has made more than 178,061 revolutions ...
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www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-tech-03c.html
www.spacedaily.com/news/satellite-tech-03c.html
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Between 1955 and 1959, NRL conducted the first American satellite program called Vanguard. The program was initiated to represent the United States in the International Geophysical Year (IGY). IGY was a cooperative international scientific effort to study the physical properties of Earth.
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www.nrl.navy.mil/content.php?P=VANGUARD
www.nrl.navy.mil/content.php?P=VANGUARD
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One of the Vanguard satellites checked out at Cape Canaveral, Florida in 1958. The Navy-led program had a series of high-profile launch mishaps, but ultimately put up Vanguard 1, in March 1958. It was the second U.S. satellite in orbit, following Explorer 1 by a month.
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Vanguard 1 space exploration ... 1955 August 1 - Vanguard selected to launch first US satellite. - Program: Vanguard. Launch Vehicle: Vanguard. Ad Hoc Committee on Special Capabilities rejects Army/Von Brauns's Project Orbiter (Redstone) and USAF Atlas proposals;
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www.astronautix.com/craft/vanuard1.htm
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Vanguard space exploration ... Vanguard was the 'civilian' vehicle developed by the US Navy to launch America's first satellite as part of the International Geophysical Year. The Army / von Braun Jupiter-C instead launched the first US satellite after Sputnik and Vanguard's public launch failure.
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www.astronautix.com/lvs/vanguard.htm
www.astronautix.com/lvs/vanguard.htm
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The oldest surviving artificial Earth satellite, Vanguard 1, turned 50 years old on Monday — and some experts are talking about bringing it back down to Earth in what would be another history-making feat. ... HOUSTON - The oldest surviving artificial Earth satellite, Vanguard 1, turned 50 years old on Monday — and...
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www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23639980/
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Vanguard 1 satellite history tecnical, scientific information and evaluation.A well constructed site for inderstanding the start of the spacerace ... This shows how far Vanguard 1 has travelled in space(not its present position) in compare with the planets mean distance from the sun.(The Sun is at the left)
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home5.swipnet.se/~w-52936/index20.htm
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Explorer 1 was America's first orbiting satellite, launched on an Army Redstone rocket after several failures to launch the Vanguard Satellite with the Navy's Vanguard rocket. The telemetry heard in this recording consists of a combination of three or more relatively stable audio tones and two alternating audio tones.
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www.amsat.org/amsat/features/sounds/firstsat.html
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