1963 · United States Air Force
Explorer 18
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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.
Overview
- Date / time
- November 27, 1963 at 02:30 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B
- Mission
- Explorer 18
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit