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[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

After the recent micro-meteoroid impact into a 2.5 inch thick cockpit window of the space shuttle Discovery during STS-120, I’ve checked what I had on micro-meteoroid research conducted by unmanned spacecraft. It seems NASA launched the Pegasus series
Satellites, which consisted of vast detector panels deployed from the large Saturn IV stages on Saturn I test flights. These unmanned spacecrafty provided vital data on micrometeoroid density in low earth orbit for design and development of the Apollo manned spacecraft.
I found photo in attachment showing Meteoroid Technology Satellite (MTS).
MTS was launched in August 1972, although the image seems to show a large spacecraft, it was only 0.7 meters wide... Can anyone acknowledge if the image shows the MTS?
From NASA-GSFC: The objectives of the Meteoroid Technology Satellite were to measure the meteoroid penetration rates in the bumper-protected target, and to obtain data on meteoroid velocity and flux distribution. MTS was launched in August 1972, although the image seems to show a large spacecraft, it was only 0.7 meters wide...

[Guest_PhilCo126_*]

Indeed, on this Pioneer remembrance coin, the asteroid-meteoroid detector scan is labeled at the 10 o'clock position