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OSO 7

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Launch Details

Date: 29 Sept 1971, 09:45 am UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta N (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Heliophysics

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

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

Mission Description

The Orbital Solar Observatory satellite was deisgned to perform solar physics experiments