Explorer 15 (EPE-C)

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

23:15:01

Saturday October 27, 1962

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Mission Details

Launch Notes

Final flight of Delta A

Wiki

Explorer 15 was a spin-stabilized, solar cell-powered spacecraft instrumented to study the artificial radiation belt produced by the Starfish high-altitude nuclear burst of July 1962.

Highly Elliptical Orbit

1 Payload

45 kilograms

Rocket

Retired

Delta A

Active in 1962

Agency

US Air Force

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 320 kg

GTO: 68 kg

Stages

3

Launch Site

SLC-17B

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

20 days 2 hours

SLC-17B

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

20 days 2 hours

Stats

Delta A

2nd

Mission

2nd

Mission of 1962

1962

67th

Orbital launch attempt