Explorer 28 (IMP-C / IMP-3), a NASA Interplanetary Monitoring Platform studying the solar wind, magnetosphere, and cosmic rays. Thor Delta C from Cape Canaveral LC-17B placed it in a highly elliptical Earth orbit on 29 May 1965.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 59 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 10 Thor Delta C flights
- Date and time
- 29 May 1965, 12:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1965-042
- Launches in 1965
- 48th of 124
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