MISSION NAME
Explorer 18 18
Status
Success
DATE
27 NOV 1963
LAUNCH PROVIDER
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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.
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Thor Delta C
Rocket Description
American orbital launch vehicle family with Thor first stage and a delta second stage.