launched from USA

Explorer 59

Success
AUG 12197815:12:00 UTC

A 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.

launched from SLC-17B Canaveral

aboard Delta 2914 Delta 144 into HEO

Payload

Explorer 59 (ISEE-3)

Heliophysics

last updated Oct 10, 2026