Payload
EXPLORER 14 (SERB 53A)
DecayedPayloadHEO
Explorer 14, also called EPE-B or Energetic Particles Explorer-B, was a NASA spacecraft instrumented to measure cosmic-ray particles, trapped particles, solar wind protons, and magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields. It was the second of the S-3 series of spacecraft, which also included Explorer 12, 14, 15, and 26. It was launched on 2 October 1962, aboard a Thor-Delta launch vehicle.
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Launch
- Launch date
- October 2, 1962 at 10:11 PM UTC
- Launch site
- Cape Canaveral SFS, USA
- Launched by
- Thor Delta A →
- Operator
- United States Air Force
- Mission
- Explorer 14
- Launch record
- View full launch →
Orbit
- Orbit regime
- HEO
- Apoapsis
- 98,756 km
- Periapsis
- 23 km
- Inclination
- 24.1°
- Orbital period
- 2184.4 min
Identity
- COSPAR (Int'l)
- 1962-051A
- NORAD catalog №
- 432
- Object type
- Payload
- Owner / operator
United States- Status
- Decayed
- Decay / reentry
- May 28, 1988
End of mission
- Last active / ended
- May 28, 1988
- Time in service
- 25.7 years
- Fate
- Reentered Earth's atmosphere and was destroyed.
- Final status
- Decayed