HEOS 1 Mission
Launch Status
Success
Date & Time
5 Dec 1968, 6:55pm
UTC
Pad
Space Launch Complex 17B
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
HEOS 1
Mission Type
Astrophysics
Destination
Elliptical Orbit
HEOS 1 (Highly Eccentric Orbit Satellite) was an earth-orbiting, spin-stabilized satellite that was launched by ESA. The spacecraft objectives were to study interplanetary magnetic fields, cosmic rays, the solar wind, and the magnetosheath.
Updated: Jan 3, 7:54pm UTC
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