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Newsreel Footage of Explorer 1

31 Jan , 2012 by Nancy Atkinson Video

Here’s a blast from the past: 54 years ago on January 31, 1958, Explorer 1 was the first satellite sent into space by the United States. The U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite following the Soviet Union’s successful Sputnik 1 launch on October 4, 1957. The 13-kg (30-pound) Explorerer satellite […]

Explorer 1, history, Van Allen Belts, Videos
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Space Flight

50 Years Ago: Explorer 1

31 Jan , 2008 by Nancy Atkinson

The launch of Sputnik in October 1957 changed the world overnight. And with the Soviet Union’s second successful launch of Sputnik 2 the following month, Americans were feeling a little left behind in the dust, especially after the US’s first satellite launch attempt with the Vanguard rocket exploded on the launchpad. But space pioneer Werner […]

Explorer 1, Satellites, space race

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