Explorer 50 (IMP-J / IMP-8), NASA’s final Interplanetary Monitoring Platform studying the solar wind, magnetosphere, and cosmic rays from a high Earth orbit. Delta 1604 from Cape Canaveral SLC-17B delivered the long-lived science craft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 398 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Delta 1604 flights
- Date and time
- 26 October 1973, 02:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 1604
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1973-078
- Launches in 1973
- 85th of 116
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