Explorer 6
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| Launch date | August 7, 1959, 4:24 PM GMT+2 |
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| Rocket | Thor-Able |
| Launch site | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 17 |
| Harvard designation | 1959 Delta 1 |
| Perigee altitude | 237 kilometers (147 mi) |
| Manufacturers | Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| TRW Inc. | |
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| ID | 1247181 |
About Explorer 6
Explorer 6, or S-2, was an American satellite launched on August 7, 1959. It was a small, spheroidal satellite designed to study trapped radiation of various energies, galactic cosmic rays, geomagnetism, radio propagation in the upper atmosphere, and the flux of micrometeorites.
