MISSION NAME
Explorer 18 18
Status
Success
DATE
27 NOV 1963
LAUNCH PROVIDER
United States Air Force
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.