Project Orbiter

Project Orbiter

Project Orbiter was a proposed United States spacecraft, an early competitor to Project Vanguard. It was jointly run by the United States Army and United States Navy. It was ultimately rejected by the Ad Hoc Committee on Special Capabilities, which selected Project Vanguard instead. Although the project was canceled on August 3, 1955, the basic design was used for the Juno I rocket which launched Explorer 1, the first satellite launched by the United States.

Proposal

Wernher von Braun proposed the idea of placing a satellite into orbit in 1954, at a meeting of Spaceflight committee of the American Rocket Society. [cite book
first = Roger R.
last = Bate
coauthors = Mueller, Donald D.; White, Jerry E.
title = Fundamentals of Astrodynamics
publisher = Dover Publications
date = June 1, 1971
pages = p. 152
isbn = 0486600610] His plan was to use a Redstone rocket with clusters of small solid-fuel rockets on top.

References

External links

* [http://www.spaceline.org/explorerchron.html Spaceline: Chronology Leading to Explorer I]


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