United States Air Force
Isis 1
Thor Delta E1
SUCCESS
Success
Thursday, January 30, 1969 · 06:46 UTC
Mission
/01ISIS 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
/02Rocket
Thor Delta E1
Variant: Delta E1
Launch Pad
Space Launch Complex 2E
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
34.752° N, 120.619° W
39
Pad Launches
319
Location Launches
477
Agency Launches
11
Orbital This Year