Launch Failure

Project Pilot | NOTS 1

July 25, 1958 at 12:00 AM UTC

Air launch to Suborbital flight

Mission imagery · Project Pilot

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July 25, 1958 at 12:00 AM UTC

Status: Launch Failure · Live feed refreshes every 30 seconds

Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake

Air launch to Suborbital flight · 35.6856, -117.6941

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Rocket: Project Pilot
Launch site: Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake
Launch probability: Not published
Window opens: July 25, 1958 at 12:00 AM UTC
Window closes: July 25, 1958 at 12:00 AM UTC
Feed updated: June 14, 2023 at 4:25 AM UTC

Mission description

The project pilot payloads were small cylindrical satellites. These missions intended to be the first to launch a satellite from an aircraft. They had only a single instrument, a very primitive infrared line scanning device to make IR images of the ground.

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