NASA Explorer 10 (P-14), a magnetospheric and solar-plasma science satellite launched on a Thor-Delta from Cape Canaveral into a highly elliptical orbit. Battery-powered instruments returned about 52 hours of data on the geomagnetic field and solar wind, including early measurements of the solar-flare shock front.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 35 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 12 Thor Delta flights
- Date and time
- 25 March 1961, 15:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-010
- Launches in 1961
- 11th of 50
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