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Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
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Project Vanguard
U.S. Navy satellite program in the 1950s
Project Vanguard was a program managed by the United States Navy Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), which intended to launch the first artificial satellite into low Earth orbit using a Vanguard rocket as the launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Vanguard 2
US Navy satellite launched in 1959
Vanguard 2 is an Earth-orbiting satellite launched 17 February 1959 at 15:55:02 GMT, aboard a Vanguard SLV-4 rocket as part of the United States Navy's Project Vanguard. The satellite was designed to measure cloud cover distribution over the daylight portion of its orbit, for a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Weather satellite
Type of satellite designed to record the state of the Earth's atmosphere
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