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HEOS 2
Launch SuccessfulLaunch 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.