SOLRAD 4B

Launch Failure

Launch Details

Date: 26 Apr 1962, 10:49 am UTC

Rocket: Scout X-2 (Scout)

Provider: US Navy

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

SOLRAD (SOLar RADiation) 4B was a solar X-ray, ultraviolet, and electronic surveillance satellite. Developed by the United States Navy's United States Naval Research Laboratory, it was the fifth in both the SOLRAD and the GRAB (Galactic Radiation And Background) programs.