Explorer 26 (EPE-D / S-3C), a NASA Energetic Particles Explorer studying Earth’s magnetic field and trapped radiation in highly elliptical orbit, launched on a Thor Delta C from Cape Canaveral LC-17A.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 46 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 10 Thor Delta C flights
- Date and time
- 21 December 1964, 09:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1964-086
- Launches in 1964
- 99th of 100
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