1964 · United States Air Force
Explorer 26
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Explorer 26 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.
Overview
- Date / time
- December 21, 1964 at 09:00 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A
- Mission
- Explorer 26
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit