Thor Delta E1
SuccessIsis 2 · United States Air Force
Launch time (NET)
Thursday, Apr 1, 1971, 02:57 UTC
Launch window
Thursday, Apr 1, 1971, 02:57 UTC – Thursday, Apr 1, 1971, 02:57 UTC
Provider
United States Air Force
Rocket
Launch pad
Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA · Open map
Status
Success
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
Mission
Isis 2
Type
Earth Science
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
ISIS 2 was an ionospheric observatory instrumented with a sweep- and a fixed-frequency ionosonde, a VLF receiver, energetic and soft particle detectors, an ion mass spectrometer, an electrostatic probe, a retarding potential analyzer, a beacon transmitter, a cosmic noise experiment, and two photometers.
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