MISSION NAME
Explorer 18 18
Status
Success
DATE
27 NOV 1963
Launch Pad
Space Launch Complex 17B
Description
Explorer 18 (IMP 1, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform) was a solar-cell and chemical-battery powered spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary and distant magnetospheric studies of energetic particles, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and plasmas.
Thor Delta C
Rocket Description
American orbital launch vehicle family with Thor first stage and a delta second stage.