Trajectory & orbital insertion
Ascent path is a representation — true ascent telemetry isn’t public.
Provider
United States Air Force
Provider type
Government
Orbit
Elliptical
Mission type
Astrophysics
Launch site
United States of America
Date
Wed, 27 Nov 1963 02:30:01 GMT
Orbital launch #
#283 ever
Mission
Explorer 18 (IMP 1, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform) was a solar-cell and chemical-battery powered spacecraft instrumented for interplanetary and distant magnetospheric studies of energetic particles, cosmic rays, magnetic fields, and plasmas.