NASA Explorer 55 (Atmosphere Explorer E), launched on a Delta 2910 from Cape Canaveral into an elliptical low-inclination orbit to study thermospheric chemistry and energy transfer at equatorial latitudes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 720 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 6 Delta 2910 flights
- Date and time
- 20 November 1975, 02:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2910
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1975-107
- Launches in 1975
- 112th of 132
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