Names | Vanguard Test Vehicle-0 Vanguard Test Vehicle-Zero |
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Mission type | Vanguard test flight |
Operator | Naval Research Laboratory |
Mission duration | Suborbital flight |
Start of mission | |
Launch date | 8 December 1956, 06:05 GMT |
Rocket | Vanguard TV-0 |
Launch site | Cape Canaveral, LC-18A |
Contractor | Glenn L. Martin Company |
End of mission | |
Decay date | Suborbital flight |
Orbital parameters | |
Altitude | 203.6 km (126.5 mi) |
Vanguard TV-0, also called Vanguard Test Vehicle-Zero, was the first sub-orbital test flight of a Viking rocket as part of the Project Vanguard.
Project Vanguard was a program managed by the United States Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), and designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company (now Lockheed-Martin), which intended to launch the first artificial satellite into Earth orbit using a Vanguard rocket, powered by a basic design for large liquid rockets.[1] as the launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Florida.