United States Air Force

Isis 2

Thor Delta E1

SUCCESS
Success

Thursday, April 1, 1971 · 02:57 UTC

Mission

/01

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.

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit (LEO)

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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