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>NOTS-EV-1 Pilot, better known as NOTSNIK (a play on "sputnik")
>Ten were launched during July and August 1958
>It was the first air-launched rocket to be used for an orbital launch attempt; however, none was recorded as having reached orbit.
>Following the third orbital launch attempt a NOTS engineer at the tracking station in Christchurch, New Zealand reported receiving a weak signal from the spacecraft; This was never confirmed, and the launches were not catalogued as having reached orbit.
>The project remained classified until 1994.
It made it to orbit, I want to believe