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IMP 8

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 26 Oct 1973, 02:26 am UTC

Rocket: Delta 1604 (Delta)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Earth-orbiting satellite designed to study interplanetary and outer magnetospheric regions.