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1959 Press Photo U.S. orbits

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Caption: Diagram shows routes of five U.S. artificial moons and Russian Spuntnik III now in Orbit around the earth. Explorer VI, launched from Cape Canaveral takes six times than other satellite s to travel once around earth with its time of 12 and Half hours per orbit it zooms out to distance of 25,950miles and then comes to within 152 miles of the earth.

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