Project Pilot | NOTS 2

Name: Project Pilot | NOTS 2
Start: 1958-08-12T00:00:00Z
Location: Air launch to Suborbital flight

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.

Mission Details

Launch date: August 12, 1958 at 12:00 AM UTC
Launch vehicle: Project Pilot
Operator: US Navy
Launch site: Air launch to Suborbital flight
Mission type: Government/Top Secret