Helios 2 (Helios B), the second West German–NASA solar probe, built to measure the interplanetary medium inside Earth’s orbit down to ~0.29 AU. Titan IIIE Centaur-D1T/Star-37E from Cape Canaveral LC-41 placed it in heliocentric orbit on 15 January 1976, closer to the Sun than Helios 1.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 453 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 Titan IIIE flights
- Date and time
- 15 January 1976, 05:34 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIE
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1976-003
- Launches in 1976
- 3rd of 131
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