Launched NASA's twin Van Allen Probes (originally RBSP) into elliptical orbits to study the Van Allen radiation belts surrounding Earth; the mission later discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.3 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 30 August 2012, 08:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2012-046
- Launches in 2012
- 48th of 78
See it in orbit
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Object pages on Space Atlas: Van Allen Probe B
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