OSO 7 (Orbiting Solar Observatory H), a NASA solar-physics satellite launched with TETR-4 (TTS 4) on a Delta N from Cape Kennedy; observed solar X-rays, UV, and the corona until reentry in 1974.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 660 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 6 Thor Delta N flights
- Date and time
- 29 September 1971, 09:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta N
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1971-083
- Launches in 1971
- 92nd of 133
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