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Thor Delta C | Explorer 28

Explorer 28

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Launch Details

Date: 29 May 1965, 12:00 pm UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta C (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

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

Mission Description

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.