United States Air Force

Isis 1

Thor Delta E1

SUCCESS
Success

Thursday, January 30, 1969 · 06:46 UTC

Mission

/01

ISIS 1 (International Satellite for Ionosphere Studies) was an ionospheric observatory instrumented with sweep- and fixed-frequency ionosondes, a VLF receiver, energetic and soft particle detectors, an ion mass spectrometer, an electrostatic probe, an electrostatic analyzer, a beacon transmitter, and a cosmic noise experiment.

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Elliptical Orbit (Elliptical)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Thor Delta E1

Variant: Delta E1

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 2E

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

34.752° N, 120.619° W

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