Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
22:11:30
Tuesday October 2, 1962
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Explorer 14 was a spin-stabilized, solar-cell-powered spacecraft instrumented to measure cosmic-ray particles, trapped particles, solar wind protons, and magnetospheric and interplanetary magnetic fields.
Highly Elliptical Orbit
1 Payload
40 kilograms
1st
Mission
1st
Mission of 1962
58th
Orbital launch attempt