ESA-GEOS 1, Europe’s first dedicated magnetospheric science satellite intended for GEO; premature Delta 2914 stage separation left it in a lower elliptical orbit, but it still returned useful IMS field and particle data.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 573 kg
- Flight
- 17th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 20 April 1977, 10:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1977-029
- Launches in 1977
- 30th of 130
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