Explorer 34 (IMP-F), NASA’s fifth Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, launched to study solar wind, cosmic rays, and magnetospheric plasma from a highly elliptical near-polar orbit. Thor Delta E1 from Vandenberg SLC-2E lofted it on 24 May 1967.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 74 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 17 Thor Delta E1 flights
- Date and time
- 24 May 1967, 14:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta E1
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1967-051
- Launches in 1967
- 55th of 139
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