Explorer 44 (Solrad 10 / SE-C), a NASA Naval Research Laboratory solar-radiation satellite measuring X-ray and ultraviolet emissions for space-weather monitoring. Scout B from Wallops Island LA-3A lofted it into LEO on 8 July 1971.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 119 kg
- Flight
- 19th
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 8 July 1971, 22:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1971-058
- Launches in 1971
- 64th of 133
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