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    Interplanetary Monitoring Platform was a program managed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, as part of the Explorers program...
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    Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in Greenbelt, Maryland. The Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) was launched in 1963 and involved a network of eleven...
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    metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) in the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) and silicon integrated circuit chips in the Apollo Guidance...
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    Explorer 33 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 33 is also known as Interplanetary Monitoring Platform D (IMP-D) or Anchored Interplanetary Monitoring Platform 1 (AIMP-1). Explorer 33 is similar...
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    Explorer 35 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 35, (IMP-E, AIMP-2, Anchored IMP-2, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-E), was a spin-stabilized spacecraft built by NASA as part of the Explorer...
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    Explorer 50 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    magnetosphere. It was the eighth and last in a series of the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform. Explorer 50 was a drum-shaped spacecraft, 135.6 cm (53.4 in)...
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    Explorer 21 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 21, also called IMP-B, IMP-2 and Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-2, was a NASA satellite launched as part of Explorer program. Explorer 21...
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    Explorer 47 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Thor-Delta 1604. Explorer 47 was the ninth overall launch of the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform series, but received the launch designation "IMP-7" because...
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    1979, pp. 181–182, 205–208. Butler, P. M. (August 29, 1989). Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (PDF). NASA. pp. 1, 11, 134. Archived (PDF) from the original...
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    Explorer 18 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 18, also called IMP-A, IMP-1, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-1 and S-74, was a NASA satellite launched as part of the Explorer program. Explorer...
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    semiconductor electronic technology, including MOSFETs in the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) and silicon integrated circuit chips in the Apollo Guidance...
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    Explorer 43 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    satellite of the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform. Explorer 43 continued the study, begun by earlier IMPs, of the interplanetary and outer magnetospheric...
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    Explorer 28 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 28, also called IMP-C, IMP-3 and Interplanetary Monitoring Platform-3, was a NASA satellite launched on 29 May 1965 to study space physics, and...
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    Explorer 34 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    Explorer 34 was the fifth satellite launched as part of the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform program, but was known as "IMP-4" because the preceding launch...
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  • semiconductor electronic technology, including MOSFETs in the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) and silicon integrated circuit chips in the Apollo Guidance...
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  • Pathfinder lander imipenem/cilastatin, an antibiotic combination Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, a series of NASA space science missions within the Explorer...
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    Explorer 41 (category Interplanetary Monitoring Platform)
    was the seventh satellite launched as part of the overall Interplanetary Monitoring Platform series, though it received the post-launch designation "IMP-5"...
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    turned off due to inference with higher priority spacecraft. Interplanetary Monitoring Platform Bourdeau was responsible for a Thermal Ion and Electron Sensor...
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    research, space exploration, Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP), Apollo program, Moon landings, space monitoring (Moon, Sun, stars, meteorites...
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    Following the use of integrated circuit (IC) chips in the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform (IMP) in 1963, IC technology was later adopted for the AGC...
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    spin-stabilized spacecraft and based on the design of the prior IMP (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform) series of spacecraft. ISEE-1 and ISEE-2 were launched on...
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  • solid fuel apogee kick motor. It was used on NASA's Anchored Interplanetary Monitoring Platform satellites. Several other versions were developed. Star 13D...
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    weather applications. One of the first of these was the IMP-8 (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform). It orbited the Earth at 35 Earth radii and observed the...
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  • story of Imp Plus, a disembodied brain controlling IMP, the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform, in earth orbit. The novel consists of Imp Plus's thoughts...
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    The interplanetary Internet is a conceived computer network in space, consisting of a set of network nodes that can communicate with each other. These...
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    using a package of instruments referred to as the "IMP" (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform). Died: Edwin B. Willis, 70, American set designer for MGM...
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  • unexpectedly knocks out 3 artificial satellites. 1964 - IMP-1 (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform 1) reports a large bow shock formed in the solar wind ahead...
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    Electrons and Hydrogen and Helium Isotopes experiment on Interplanetary Monitoring Platform 7 (IMP-7) (1972), the PI of the Electrons and Hydrogen and...
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    principal investigator of the magnetometer experiments on the Interplanetary Monitoring Platform satellites. He directed the Explorer 35 Moon mission, and...
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    spin-stabilized spacecraft and based on the design of the prior IMP (Interplanetary Monitoring Platform) series of spacecraft. ISEE-1 and ISEE-2 were launched on...
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