Explorer 33 (IMP-D / AIMP-D), a NASA Interplanetary Monitoring Platform for solar wind and magnetospheric studies. Thor Delta E1 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A launched it on 1 July 1966 toward lunar orbit but it entered a high Earth orbit that still returned long-lived particle and fields data.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LO
- Lunar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 94 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 17 Thor Delta E1 flights
- Date and time
- 1 July 1966, 16:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta E1
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1966-058
- Launches in 1966
- 65th of 131
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