Scout G-1 launched NASA's Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer (SAMPEX) from Vandenberg, the first mission of NASA's Small Explorer (SMEX) program, studying energetic particles from the Sun, the galaxy, and near-Earth space.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 147 kg
- Flight
- 15th
- of 17 Scout G-1 flights
- Date and time
- 21 November 1992, 13:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout G-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1992-078
- Launches in 1992
- 80th of 97
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