Thor Delta C | Explorer 18

Name: Thor Delta C | Explorer 18
Start: 1963-11-27T02:30:01Z
Location: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

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.

Mission Details

Launch date: November 27, 1963 at 02:30 AM UTC
Launch vehicle: Thor Delta C
Operator: United States Air Force
Launch site: Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission type: Astrophysics