LAUNCH CENTER

Failure

Thu Aug 28 1958

United States Navy

NOTS 6

Launch Failure

LAUNCH PREVIEW

Launch Time

(12:00 AM UTC)

Launch Window Start

(12:00 AM UTC)

Launch Window End

(12:00 AM UTC)

RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Project Pilot

Description:

The NOTS-EV-1 Pilot, also known as NOTSNIK was an expendable launch system and anti-satellite weapon developed by the United States Navy's United States Naval Ordnance Test Station (NOTS).

MISSION OVERVIEW

Type: Government/Top Secret
The project pilot payloads were small cylindrical satellites. These missions intended to be the first to launch a satellite from an aircraft. They had only a single instrument, a very primitive infrared line scanning device to make IR images of the ground.

COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Air launch to Suborbital flight

Pad

Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake