• Full view of a long brown stick with three interconnected circles at the top. Two sticks extend horizontally out of the main stick with golden rings at their ends. Silver machinery is at the bottom of the stick.
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    This is a flight spare for the sensor system carried on the Orbiting Geophysical Observatory V (OGO-V) satellite designed to measure the energy characteristics in the radiation belts surrounding the Earth.

  • Full view of a long brown stick with three interconnected circles at the top. Two sticks extend horizontally out of the main stick with golden rings at their ends. Silver machinery is at the bottom of the stick.

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Mark Avino

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NASM2011-02430

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Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum

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