1971 · United States Air Force
Isis 2
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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.
Overview
- Date / time
- April 1, 1971 at 02:57 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E
- Mission
- Isis 2
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit