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Thor Delta C | Explorer 21

Explorer 21

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Launch Details

Date: 4 Oct 1964, 03:45 am UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta C (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

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

Mission Description

Explorer 21 (IMP 2) 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.