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Explorer 16
Scout X-3 · Earth Science
1962Launch Area 3, Wallops Flight Facility
Mission
Explorer 16 was the second in the series of micrometeoroid satellites orbited by NASA. Its purpose was to obtain data on the near-earth meteoroid environment, thus providing an accurate estimate of the probability of penetration in spacecraft structures by meteoroids and allowing a more confident definition of the relationship between penetration flux and material thickness to be derived.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- NASA
- Rocket
- Scout X-3
- Orbit
- LEO
- Pad
- Launch Area 3
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2