Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Provider type
Government
Orbit
LEO
Mission type
Earth Science
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Sun, 16 Dec 1962 14:33:04 GMT
Orbital launch #
#221 ever
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.