Explorer 16 (S-55B), a NASA micrometeoroid research satellite measuring near-Earth dust flux and structural penetration rates. Maiden Scout X-3 flight from Wallops Island LA-3 placed it in LEO; the spacecraft operated about 7.5 months and met all mission objectives.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 76 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 5 Scout X-3 flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 1962, 14:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-3
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1962-070
- Launches in 1962
- 78th of 81
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