USN 711007: Solar Radiation IV Satellite
![USN 711007: The Naval Research Laboratory’s Solar Radiation IV will monitor x-ray radiation from the Sun and ultraviolet radiation in the night sky. Visible in the photograph are: three solar cell patches; one of the sphere’s four x-ray detectors (dark vertical line on left side of ball’s equator); the four parallel gun-barrel-like ultraviolet detectors; the six Earth-aspect detectors (dark tube-like attachments or horns jutting out diagonally from the sphere); the two small gas satellite’s equator; half of the four miniature rocket backup spin-up satellites making up the payload of Composite I. Photograph released January 24, 1962. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. USN 711007: The Naval Research Laboratory’s Solar Radiation IV will monitor x-ray radiation from the Sun and ultraviolet radiation in the night sky. Visible in the photograph are: three solar cell patches; one of the sphere’s four x-ray detectors (dark vertical line on left side of ball’s equator); the four parallel gun-barrel-like ultraviolet detectors; the six Earth-aspect detectors (dark tube-like attachments or horns jutting out diagonally from the sphere); the two small gas satellite’s equator; half of the four miniature rocket backup spin-up satellites making up the payload of Composite I. Photograph released January 24, 1962. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.](/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/prior-exhibits/2020/fly-navy-to-the-moon/additional-photographs/satellites/usn-711007/_jcr_content/mediaitem/image.img.jpg/1677506990473.jpg)
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