NASA - NSSDCA - Spacecraft - Details
May 1, 2015 · OGO 2 was a large observatory instrumented with 20 experiments designed to make simultaneous, correlative observations of aurora and airglow emissions, energetic …
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory - Wikipedia
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) Program [1] of NASA refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to …
OGO 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 (EGO 1, 2, 3 / POGO 1, 2, 3)
OGO 2 was a large observatory instrumented with 20 experiments designed to make simultaneous, correlative observations of aurora and airglow emissions, energetic particles, …
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory Series - Imagine the Universe!
Feb 6, 2014 · OGO was different in that the satellite design was fixed and experiments would need to be engineered to fit the satellite. Each satellite carried about 20 experiments. OGO-1, …
NASA - NSSDCA - Experiment - Details
Feb 21, 2025 · Mission Name: OGO 2 Principal Investigator:Dr. Charles A. Barth Description The purpose of this experiment was to measure the earth's ultraviolet spectra caused by the …
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory series satellites - NASA
OGO 1 was successfully launched from Cape Kennedy on 5 September 1964 and placed into an initial orbit of 281 x 149,385 km at 31 degrees inclination. Two experiment booms failed to …
POGO (OGO‐2, ‐4 and ‐6 Spacecraft) | SpringerLink
OGO‐2 and OGO‐4 were the first spacecrafts to operate simultaneously in different local time planes. Olsen et al. used data from a brief period in 1967 to show how such multispacecraft …
OGO - Encyclopedia Astronautica
OGO 2 was a large observatory instrumented with 20 experiments designed to make simultaneous, correlative observations of aurora and airglow emissions, energetic particles, …
NASA - NSSDCA - Data Collection - Details
Feb 27, 2025 · This data set is one of three identical-format data sets from the Orbiting Geophysical Observatories (OGOs) 2, 4, and 6, otherwise known as POGO 1, 2, and 3 (P is …
OGO-2 is an extremely versatile second generation satellite capable of high bit rates possessing an on-board tape recorder and, until 10 days after launch having complete attitude control.