Transit 4B with TRAAC, a U.S. Navy navigation satellite (SNAP-3 nuclear RTG) and Johns Hopkins gravity-gradient attitude-control experiment, launched together on a Thor DM-21 Ablestar from Cape Canaveral LC-17B.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 194 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 19 Thor DM-21 Ablestar flights
- Date and time
- 15 November 1961, 22:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-031
- Launches in 1961
- 43rd of 50
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