ISEE-1 (Explorer 56) and ISEE-2, NASA–ESA International Sun-Earth Explorer magnetospheric science spacecraft, launched together on a Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B into highly elliptical orbits to study the solar wind and magnetosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 505 kg
- Flight
- 20th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 22 October 1977, 13:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1977-102
- Launches in 1977
- 107th of 130
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