1972 · United States Air Force
HEOS 2
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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.
Overview
- Date / time
- January 31, 1972 at 05:20 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E
- Mission
- HEOS 2
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Elliptical Orbit