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The US satellite Explorer was designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, under the guidance of US electrical engineer William Pickering. It was 1.54 m/60.75 in in length and 15 cm/6 in in diameter.

Series of US scientific satellites. Explorer 1, launched on 31 January 1958, was the first US satellite in orbit and discovered the Van Allen radiation belts around the Earth. Explorer 42 in 1970 was the first satellite to study X-rays from space, and Explorer 48 in 1972 was the first to study gamma rays from space. Explorer 83 was the Swift gamma-ray astronomy spacecraft, launched in November 2004.
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AFTER a great expenditure of life and treasure a Daring Explorer had succeeded in reaching the North Pole, when he was approached by a Native Galeut who lived there.
Fantastic-Fables by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
He was like the explorer in Central Africa who comes suddenly upon wide uplands, with great trees in them and stretches of meadow, so that he might fancy himself in an English park.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
After drinking some hot coffee, like an Arctic explorer setting off on a sledge journey towards the North Pole, I would go ashore and roll shivering in a tramcar into the very heart of the town, past clean-faced houses, past thousands of brass knockers upon a thousand painted doors glimmering behind rows of trees of the pavement species, leafless, gaunt, seemingly dead for ever.
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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