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Beacon Explorer (BE)



Early satellites within NASA's Explorer series which measured the total electron count between the spacecraft and Earth by means of a radio beacon, and carried out other basic studies of the ionosphere. As well as by their BE designation they were known as Explorers 22 and 27.


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