Explorer 43 (IMP-I), a NASA Interplanetary Monitoring Platform measuring solar wind, cosmic rays, and magnetospheric fields in a highly elliptical Earth orbit. Only flight of Thor Delta M6 from Cape Kennedy LC-17A on 13 March 1971.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 290 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Thor Delta M6 flight
- Date and time
- 13 March 1971, 16:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta M6
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1971-019
- Launches in 1971
- 22nd of 133
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