Launched NASA's Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX) from Vandenberg SLC-5, the first satellite of NASA's Small Explorer (SMEX) program, to study energetic particles from the Sun, interstellar space and Earth's magnetosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 158 kg
- Flight
- 14th
- of 17 Scout G-1 flights
- Date and time
- 3 July 1992, 14:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout G-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1992-038
- Launches in 1992
- 39th of 97
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