Trailblazer 1 | Trailblazer 1g

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Government)
• Rocket: Trailblazer 1 — Trailblazer family

Mission

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.

• Type: Test Flight
• Orbit: Suborbital (Sub)

Launch Site

• Pad: Unknown Pad
• Location: Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
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