Explorer 53 (SAS-3 / SAS C), NASA’s third Small Astronomy Satellite for soft and hard X-ray source surveys and monitoring. Scout F-1 from the Italian San Marco platform off Kenya placed the craft in near-equatorial LEO on the Scout F-1’s only successful flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 189 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Scout F-1 flights
- Date and time
- 7 May 1975, 22:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout F-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- San Marco platform, Broglio Space Center, Kenya
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1975-037
- Launches in 1975
- 40th of 132
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