AMPTE (Active Magnetospheric Particle Tracer Explorers)—NASA’s Charge Composition Explorer (CCE/Explorer 65), West Germany’s Ion Release Module (IRM), and the UK Subsatellite (UKS)—launched on a Delta 3924 from Cape Canaveral to study magnetospheric plasma with tracer ion releases.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 5 Delta 3924 flights
- Date and time
- 16 August 1984, 14:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3924
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1984-088
- Launches in 1984
- 88th of 129
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