Explorer 30 (SOLRAD 8 / SE-A), a Naval Research Laboratory solar X-ray and UV monitor launched on a Scout X-4 from Wallops; its photometers provided continuous solar radiation data and observed the 20 May 1966 solar eclipse from orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 57 kg
- Flight
- 11th
- of 12 Scout X-4 flights
- Date and time
- 19 November 1965, 04:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-4
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1965-093
- Launches in 1965
- 104th of 124
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