Explorer 5, a JPL/ABMA charged-particle satellite built to study Van Allen belts and Project Argus nuclear effects, failed on a Juno I from Cape Canaveral when the Redstone recontacted the second stage after separation and misaimed the upper stages.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 5th
- of 6 Juno-I flights
- Date and time
- 24 August 1958, 06:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Juno-I
- Builder
- Chrysler
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 5, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- Launches in 1958
- 16th of 28