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Project Vanguard

Project Vanguard was a program managed by the United States Navy's 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.

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Project history

The Navy's project

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Launch history

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Project Vanguard

Nodes88
Edges87
Triples24
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.022727
Components1

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Project Vanguard

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related to References · 24
Project Vanguard → Author, Basic Books, Boston, CenturyMcDougall, Company, Constance Green, Doubleday, Garden City, Government Printing Office, History, Kurt, Kurt Stehling, Milton Lomask, NASA SP-4202, New York, Paul Dickson, Ref, Sputnik, Sputnik Declassified, Stehling

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vanguard satellite launch rocket sputnik launched orbit 1957 earth program project explorer vehicle 1958 space tracking satellites nrl army first

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesVanguard0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesHistory0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesConstance Green0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesMilton Lomask0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesNASA SP-42020.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesGovernment Printing Office0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesWashington0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesKurt Stehling0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesDoubleday0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesCompany0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesGarden City0.60section
Project Vanguardrelated to ReferencesSputnik Declassified0.60section

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