Explorer program Timeline of Events

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Explorer program

The Explorer program is a United States space exploration program that provides flight opportunities for physics, heliophysics, and astrophysics investigations from space. Over 90 space missions have been launched from 1958 to 2011, and it is still active...

Timeline of Events

1958

1.31.1958

Explorer program: ''Explorer 1'' – The first successful launch of an American satellite into orbit.

7.26.1958

Explorer program: ''Explorer 4'' is launched.

1959

8.7.1959

Explorer program: Explorer 6 launches from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

1961

2.16.1961

Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.

1966

5.25.1966

Explorer program: ''Explorer 32'' launches.