NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

Explorer 14 (EPE-B)

Launch Time
Tue Oct 02, 1962 22:11 UTC

Rocket

Delta A
Image Credit: USAF or NASA
US Air Force
Status: Retired
Payload to LEO: 320 kg
Payload to GTO: 68 kg
Stages: 3
Strap-ons: 0

Mission Details

Explorer 14 (EPE-B)

Explorer 14 was a spin-stabilized, solar-cell-powered spacecraft instrumented to measure cosmic-ray particles, trapped particles, solar wind protons, and magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 40.0 kg
Highly Elliptical Orbit

Location

SLC-17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

1962

58th orbital launch attempt

Delta A

1st mission
1st mission of 1962
1st successful mission