ISEE-3 (Explorer 59 / ICE), a NASA–ESRO heliophysics probe and the first spacecraft stationed at the Sun–Earth L1 Lagrange point. Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B later redirected it as the International Cometary Explorer past Giacobini–Zinner (1985) and Halley (1986).
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- L1-point
- Sun-Earth L1
- Payload to orbit
- 479 kg
- Flight
- 27th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 1978, 15:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1978-079
- Launches in 1978
- 81st of 128
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