Explorer 46 (Meteoroid Technology Satellite-A), a NASA Scout D-1 mission from Wallops measuring meteoroid penetration rates of bumper-protected spacecraft materials in low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 168 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 15 Scout D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 13 August 1972, 15:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout D-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1972-061
- Launches in 1972
- 65th of 113
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