Souvenir postal stamp of Pegasus 1 micrometroid technology satellite re-entering the atmosphere.

Date: September 17, 1978

Diagram showing the major events of the ascent of SA-9 for the Apollo AS-103/Pegasus 1 mission.

Date: February 16, 1965

“This drawing, prepared by the NASA-Marshall Space Flight Center, shows meteoroid detection panels being deployed (1) on a Saturn-launched satellite, in the folded position aboard the launch vehicle (2), unfolding (3). Unfolded the panels (4) have a wingspan of about 100 feet. The presence of tiny particles in space will be recorded as they collide with the wing skin sensor.”

The three Pegasus satellites launched on SA-8 (AS-103), SA-9 (AS-104) and SA-10 (AS-105).

Date: 1963

Pegasus satellite housed inside the adapted service module of the Saturn I Block II (SA-8 through SA-10). Metroid Technology Satellite Mission

Date: 1963

"Pegasus-1, meteoroid detection satellite, installed on Saturn I (SA-9 mission) S-IV stage. The satellite was used to obtain data on frequency and penetration of the potentially hazardous micrometeoroids in low Earth orbits and to relay the information back to Earth. SA-9 was launched on February 16, 1965 and the Pegasus-1 satellite was the first operational payload for Saturn I."

Date: January 13, 1965

NASA ID: 1965-009

souvenir postal stamp

Date: February 16, 1965

"Three Pegasus satellites were launched to gather data on the the meteoroid environment of low-Earth orbit. Pegasus-3, with a wingspan of 29 meters, included meteoroid-capture panels designed for retrieval by Gemini or Apollo astronauts; it would, however, not receive visitors before it reentered the atmosphere in August 1969."

Image credit: NASA.

Launch of the AS-103 Saturn I Block II (SA-9), the eighth Saturn I flight, from LC-37B.

"This was the first Saturn with an operational payload, the Pegasus I meteoroid detection satellite. SA-9 successfully deployed the Pegasus I, NASA's largest unmarned instrumented satellite, into near Earth orbit."

Date: February 16, 1965

NASA ID: 5-19619, MSFC-6519630, link, KSC-65P-13, MSFC-6519630, link, KSC-65-BP16-35, 107-KSC-65P-12