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Thor Delta C | Explorer 28

Success US Air Force, Thor Delta C

Mission

Astrophysics · Elliptical

Explorer 28 (IMP 3) 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.

Remind me

Before liftoff
Also notify me of

If the launch moves, your reminders move with it, and at the time of your first reminder we tell you the new date.