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AKA: Sakartvelo. Location: Tbilist.

• Chemical release mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 112 km (69 mi). Launched 14:10 local time. Reached 112.4 km. Carried cosmic radiation (Applied Physics Lab, John Hopkins University) experiments for General Electric..

• UVS / Ionosphere properties Solar ultraviolet / ionosphere mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 117 km (72 mi). Launched 16:40 local time. Reached 117.7 km. Carried solar radiation, ionosphere (Naval Research Lab) experiments for General Electric..

• Chemical release / ionosphere mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 134 km (83 mi). Launched 12:30 local time. Reached 134.7 km. Carried cosmic radiation, ionosphere (Naval Research Lab) experiments for General Electric..

• Ionosphere mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 5.00 km (3.10 mi). Launched 12:11 local time. Reached 4.8 km. Carried ionosphere (Naval Research Lab) experiments for General Electric..

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 50 km (31 mi). Launched 17:22 local time. Reached 50 km. Carried no upper atmospheric research experiments. Technology flight for General Electric..

• Grenades Test / aeronomy mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 140 km (80 mi).

  Launched 14:22 local time. Reached 142.7 km. Carried pressure, temperature (Signal Corps Engineering Lab, University of Michigan) experiments for General Electric. The warhead section was replaced with an instrumented full-scale replica of the cylindrical GE A-4 ramjet duct planned for the Hermes B ramjet missile.

• Solar ultraviolet / aeronomy mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 156 km (96 mi).

  Launched 12:15 local time. Reached 156.5 km. Carried Solar radiation (Naval Research Lab); pressure, composition (SCEL) experiments for General Electric. General Electric engineers obtained the first carefully instrumented heat-transfer data from supersonic flight when this V-2 attained 1520 m/s.

• G.E. Special test - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Apogee: 29 km (18 mi). Launched 16:47 local time. Reached 26.8 km. Carried no upper atmospheric research experiments. Technology flight for General Electric..

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Apogee: 113 km (70 mi). Launched 10:15 local time. Reached 111.3 km. Carried No upper atmosphere experiments. Technology flight for General Electric. Successful electronic flight control demonstrated by General Electric technicians for Army Ordnance..

• Blossom IIA Aeronomy / fields mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 5.00 km (3.10 mi). Launched 16:10 local time. Reached 5.5 km. Carried Magnetic field, composition, winds, temperature (Signal Corps Engineering Lab, University of Michigan) experiments for General Electric..

• Hermes B Solar/Biological mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 145 km (90 mi).

  Launched 15:34 local time. Reached 145.6 km. Carried biological (Harvard), solar radiation (Naval Research Lab), composition (Signal Corps Engineering Lab, University of Michigan) experiments for General Electric. The warhead section was replaced with an instrumented full-scale replica of the cylindrical GE A-4 ramjet duct planned for the Hermes B ramjet missile.

• Hermes B Solar mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 8.00 km (4.90 mi).

  Launched 08:15 local time. Reached 8.9 km. Carried Solar radiation (Naval Research Lab) experiments for General Electric. The warhead section was replaced with an instrumented full-scale replica of the cylindrical GE A-4 ramjet duct planned for the Hermes B ramjet missile.

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 20 km (12 mi).

  Bumper No. 8, a German V-2 with a 320 kg Army-JPL Wac Corporal, was fired from the Long-Range Proving Ground at Cape Canaveral at a very low angle of attack. The first-stage V-2 climbed 16 km before it exploded. The second-stage Corporal separated successfully, however, and traveled another 24 km. This was the first missile launch from Cape Canaveral.

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE, US Army. Apogee: 50 km (31 mi).

  Bumper No. 7 was the second missile launch from Cape Canaveral. This was to be a maximum range test of a two-stage vehicle, to study the problems in staging. The launch was delayed because of moisture in the vehicle. But when finally launched, the WAC achieved the highest sustained speed in the atmosphere to that date (Mach 9/2500 m/s) and 35.2 km altitude before impacting 305 km downrange.

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Apogee: 32 km (19 mi).

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Apogee: 35 km (21 mi).

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Apogee: 3.00 km (1.80 mi).

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Apogee: 36 km (22 mi).

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Apogee: 36 km (22 mi).

• Test mission - . Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Apogee: 34 km (21 mi).

• Aurora 2 - . Payload: Satcom-C 5. Mass: 1,336 kg (2,945 lb). Nation: USA. Agency: GE. Manufacturer: Lockheed. Class: Communications. Type: Civilian communications satellite. Spacecraft: AS 3000. USAF Sat Cat: 21392 . COSPAR: 1991-037A. Apogee: 36,161 km (22,469 mi). Perigee: 36,125 km (22,446 mi). Inclination: 1.20 deg. Period: 1,454.40 min.

  Stationed at 139 deg W. Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space (US Cat B). Positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 139 deg W in 1991-1999 As of 30 August 2001 located at 148.31 deg E drifting at 4.531 deg W per day. As of 2007 Mar 9 located at 2.15E drifting at 4.534W degrees per day.