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Credit - NASA
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Class: Earth. Type: Magnetosphere. Destination: Medium Earth Orbit. Nation: USA. Agency: U.S. Army, U.S. Navy. Investigated aurora borealis. Typical orbit: 3792 km x 3947 km at 90 degrees inclination. Mass: 21 kg (46 lb).
Aurora Chronology - 1967 June 29 - Aurora 1 - Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Complex: SLC10W. Launch Vehicle: Delta. Mass: 21 kg (46 lb). Perigee: 3,808 km (2,366 mi). Apogee: 3,937 km (2,446 mi). Inclination: 90.20 deg. Period: 172.10 min.
Investigated aurora borealis. Space craft engaged in investigation of spaceflight techniques and technology (US Cat A).
Bibliography:- McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page (launch records), Harvard University, 1997-present. Web Address when accessed: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.
- JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Web Address when accessed: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.
- McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Web Address when accessed: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.
- NASA Report, Operation plan 18-67 Office of Naval Research/Rice University satellite Aurora-1, Web Address when accessed: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670023007_1967023007.pdf.
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