Explorer 23 (S-55C), NASA’s third and final S-55 micrometeoroid detection satellite. Scout X-4 from Wallops lofted it on 6 November 1964 into LEO to measure meteoroid penetration rates for spacecraft design.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 96 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 12 Scout X-4 flights
- Date and time
- 6 November 1964, 12:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-4
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Materials Science
- International designator
- 1964-074
- Launches in 1964
- 86th of 100
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