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Explorer 1 is the first artificial satellite successfully placed into orbit by the United States of America. Launched on 31 January 1958, it was a direct response to the Soviet Union’s launches of Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2 during the Space Race of the Cold War. Explorer 1’s mission did not merely achieve a technological milestone; it also marked the first major scientific discovery of the space age by revealing the existence of the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth. This historic mission