Thor Delta E1 | Isis 1

Launch Provider & Rocket

• Provider: United States Air Force (Government)
• Rocket: Thor Delta E1 — Thor family

Mission

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.

• Type: Earth Science
• Orbit: Elliptical Orbit (Elliptical)

Launch Site

• Pad: Space Launch Complex 2E
• Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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