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March 19th in Astronomy and Space Science

1964

US launches Beacon Explorer-A, a research satellite designed to measure the total electrical current in the ionosphere. An unknown malfunction prevented the satellite from reaching orbit, and it reentered over the South Atlantic ocean.

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