Explorer 59
Success
AUG 12197815:12:00 UTCA Delta 2914 launched ISEE-3, the first spacecraft to use a halo orbit around the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point. It was later renamed the International Cometary Explorer. In 2014 the ISEE-3 Reboot Project regained contact with it and fired its thrusters in July, but could not change its orbit, and contact was lost on 16 September 2014.
LIFTOFF
AUG 12 197815:12:00 UTC
Success
launched from SLC-17B Canaveral
aboard Delta 2914 Delta 144 into HEO
Payload
Explorer 59 (ISEE-3)
Heliophysics

