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Explorer 33
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 1 July 1966, 04:02 pm UTC
Rocket: Thor Delta E1 (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Astrophysics
Orbit: Lunar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Satellite instrumented for studies of interplanetary plasma, energetic charged particles, magnetic fields, and solar X-rays at lunar distances.