LAUNCH CENTER

Success

Fri Jul 03 1992

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

SAMPEX

Launch Successful

LAUNCH TIME

(Loading...)

Window Open

(Loading...)

Window Close

(Loading...)

RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

No Recovery Specified

Type

No Recovery Specified

Rocket Details

Name:

Scout G-1

Description:

The Scout family of rockets were were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth. The Scout multistage rocket was the first orbital launch vehicle to be entirely composed of solid fuel stages.

MISSION OVERVIEW

Type: Planetary Science
The main objectives of SAMPEX (Solar Anomalous & Magnetospheric Particle Explorer) experiments was to obtain data for several continuous years on the anomalous, components of cosmic rays, on energetic particle emissions from the sun, and on the precipitating magnetospheric relativistic electrons.

COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Pad

Space Launch Complex 5