Scanner was an American scientific spacecraft developed by Honeywell for NASA to measure the natural radiation gradients that define the horizon of Earth as seen from a spacecraft during a sub-orbital flight, and the altitude relationship of these gradients to the solid Earth horizon. Scanner comprised a probe launched by a two-stage solid-propellant booster. Research Scanner
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