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SAMPEX
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 3 July 1992, 02:19 pm UTC
Rocket: Scout G-1 (Scout)
Provider: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission
Type: Planetary Science
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
The main objectives of SAMPEX (Solar Anomalous & Magnetospheric Particle Explorer) experiments was to obtain data for several continuous years on the anomalous, components of cosmic rays, on energetic particle emissions from the sun, and on the precipitating magnetospheric relativistic electrons.