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Explorer 3
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 26 Mar 1958, 05:38 pm UTC
Rocket: Juno-I (Redstone)
Provider: Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Elliptical Orbit
Pad: Launch Complex 26A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Small satellite launched into an eccentric orbit with a cosmic ray counter and a micrometeorite detector.