Explorer 47 (IMP-H / IMP-7), a NASA Interplanetary Monitoring Platform studying solar wind, magnetosphere, and energetic particles. Maiden flight of the Delta 1000 series (Delta 1604) from Cape Canaveral LC-17B placed it in a highly elliptical HEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 390 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Delta 1604 flights
- Date and time
- 23 September 1972, 01:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 1604
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1972-073
- Launches in 1972
- 78th of 113
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