Explorer 37 (SOLRAD 9 / Solar Explorer B), a Naval Research Laboratory solar-monitoring satellite launched on a Scout B from Wallops Island LA-3 to measure solar X-ray and ultraviolet emissions from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 119 kg
- Flight
- 10th
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 5 March 1968, 18:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1968-017
- Launches in 1968
- 18th of 128
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