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Thor Delta E1 | HEOS 1

HEOS 1

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Launch Details

Date: 5 Dec 1968, 06:55 pm UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta E1 (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

HEOS 1 (Highly Eccentric Orbit Satellite) was an earth-orbiting, spin-stabilized satellite that was launched by ESA. The spacecraft objectives were to study interplanetary magnetic fields, cosmic rays, the solar wind, and the magnetosheath.