Explorer 14 (EPE B / S-3a), a NASA Energetic Particles Explorer launched on a Delta-A from Cape Canaveral LC-17B into a highly elliptical orbit to measure cosmic rays, trapped particles, solar-wind protons, and magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 40 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Thor Delta A flights
- Date and time
- 2 October 1962, 22:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta A
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1962-051
- Launches in 1962
- 58th of 81
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