United States Air Force
Isis 2
Thor Delta E1
SUCCESS
Success
Thursday, April 1, 1971 · 02:57 UTC
Mission
/01ISIS 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.
Mission Type
Earth Science
Orbit
Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
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
44
Pad Launches
362
Location Launches
545
Agency Launches
28
Orbital This Year