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HEOS 2

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 31 Jan 1972, 05:20 pm UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta L (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Astrophysics

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

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

Mission Description

HEOS 2 was a spin-stabilized spacecraft with a highly eccentric orbit whose apogee occurred at high latitude. Its primary scientific mission was the investigation of interplanetary space and the high-latitude magnetosphere and its boundary in the region around the northern neutral point.