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Isis 1

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Launch Details

Date: 30 Jan 1969, 06:46 am UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta E1 (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

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

Mission Description

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.