Word: trunnion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...height of the rocket's trajectory, the nose cone should have opened, the spectrometer glided out on a trunnion and spent five minutes scanning the dise of the sun. The spectrometer then should have folded back into the nose cone. Hopefully, the instrument will be recovered when the cone lands in New Mexico...