Editing Sputnik 2 (section)

===Experimental data===
The cosmic ray detector transmitted for one week, going silent on 9 November when its battery was exhausted. The experiment reported unexpected results the day after launch, noting an increase in high-energy charged particles from a normal 18 pulses/sec to 72 pulses/sec at the highest latitudes of its orbit. Per two articles in the Soviet newspaper [[Pravda]], the particle flux increased with altitude as well. It is likely that Sputnik 2 was detecting the lower levels of the [[Van Allen Belt]] when it reached the [[apogee]] of its orbit. However, because Sputnik 2 telemetry could only be received when it was flying over the Soviet Union, the data set was insufficient to draw conclusions, particularly as, most of the time, Sputnik 2 traveled below the Belt.<ref name="race"/>{{rp|32}} Additional observational data had been received by Australian observers when the satellite was overhead, and Soviet scientists asked them for it. The secrecy-minded Soviets were not willing to give the Australians the code that would give them the ability to descramble and use the data themselves. As a result, the Australians declined to turn over their data.<ref name=physicstoday>{{cite journal|url=https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/70/12/46/904087/Discovering-Earth-s-radiation-beltsSix-decades|title=Discovering Earth's radiation belts|author1=Daniel N. Baker|author2=Mikhail I. Panasyuk|journal=Physics Today |date=1 December 2017|volume=70 |issue=12 |pages=46–51 |doi=10.1063/PT.3.3791 |bibcode=2017PhT....70l..46B |accessdate=1 October 2023}}</ref> Thus, the Soviet Union missed out on its chance to get credit for the scientific discovery, which ultimately went to James Van Allen of the State University of Iowa, whose experiments on [[Explorer 1]] and [[Explorer 3]] first mapped the radiation belts that now bear his name.<ref name=VanAllen>{{cite book|title=The Exploration of Space|chapter=The Geomagnetically Trapped Corpuscular Particles|author=James Van Allen|editor=Robert Jastrow|date=1960|publisher=The MacMillan Company|location=New York|oclc=853599}}</ref>

As for the ultraviolet and X-ray photometers, they  were calibrated such that they were oversaturated by orbital radiation, returning no usable data.<ref name="race"/>{{rp|32}}