By:Carlee Phillips
The Explorer launch on January 31, The location of the launch was in Cape Canaveral Missile Annex, Fl U.S
The Explorer didn’t have any crew members.
It was a part of the Explorer.
The purpose of the mission, It was in response4 to the Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1, it was designed to measure the radiation environment in the Earth’s orbit.
There were no complications during the exploration.
Dr. James van Allen theorized that a strong radiation belt was traped in the Earth’s