1958 · Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Explorer 3
successJuno-I | Explorer 3
Small satellite launched into an eccentric orbit with a cosmic ray counter and a micrometeorite detector.
Overview
- Date / time
- March 26, 1958 at 05:38 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 26A
- Mission
- Explorer 3
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit