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  skos:definition """The Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO 1) was successfully launched from
Cape Kennedy on 5 September 1964 and placed into an initial orbit of 281 x
149,385 km at 31 degrees inclination. Two experiment booms failed to properly
deploy, with one of the booms obscuring a horizon scanner's view of earth. As a
result, the spacecraft attitude could not be earth oriented and OGO 1 remained
spin stabilized at 5 rpm. Nevertheless, data from all 20 experiments on board
was received, although at a "less than expected capacity" from some of them.
During September 1964, acceptable data were received over 70% of the orbital
path. Spacecraft operation was restricted to Spring and Fall due to power
supply limitations. There were 11 such 3-month periods prior to the spacecraft
being put into stand-by mode on 25 November 1969. OGO 1 was completely
terminated on 1 November 1971.

On board was the Positron Search and Gamma-Ray Spectrum experiment of Cline et
al. It was designed to determine whether low-energy (0-3 MeV) positrons are
trapped temporarily or permanently in the Van Allen regions and whether
low-energy solar and interplanetary positrons exist at the edge of the Earth's
magnetic field. A secondary objective was to detect gamma-ray bursts from the
Sun in the energy range 80 keV - 1 MeV. The experiment consisted of 3 CsI
crystals surrounded by a plastic anti-coincidence shield. The output of the
whole unit was monitored by 3 PMTs. Once every 18.5 seconds, integral intensity
measurements were made in each of 16 energy channels which were equally spaced
over the .08-1 MeV range.

The experiment did not achieve its goals due to electrical interference and
secular degradation of the PMT responses. However, searching back through the
data after the discovery of cosmic gamma-ray bursts by the Vela satellites
revealed the detection of one or more such events in the OGO 1 data.

[Summary provided by NASA.]


Group: Platform_Details
   Entry_ID: OGO-1
   Group: Platform_Identification
      Platform_Category: Earth Observation Satellites
      Platform_Series_or_Entity: OGO (Orbiting Geophysical Observatory)
      Short_Name: OGO-1
      Long_Name: Orbiting Geophysical Observatory-1
   End_Group
   Group: Synonymous_Platform_Names
      Short_Name: EOGO 1
      Short_Name: OGO-A
      Short_Name: 00879
   End_Group
   Group: Platform_Associated_Instruments
      Short_Name: SPECTROMETERS
      Short_Name: MAGNETOMETERS
   End_Group
   Group: Orbit
      Orbit_Inclination: 31.2 degrees
      Period: 3839.0 minutes
      Perigee: 281.0 km
      Apogee: 149385.0 km
      Orbit_Type: LEO > Low Earth Orbit > Polar Sun-Synchronous
   End_Group
   Creation_Date: 2007-02-12
   Online_Resource: http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1964-054A
   Online_Resource: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/ogo.html#ogo1
   Sample_Image: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/ogo/ogo.gif
   Group: Platform_Logistics
      Launch_Date: 1964-09-05
      Launch_Site: Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, USA
      Primary_Sponsor: NASA
   End_Group
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