flown missionSuccess
Thor SLV-2 Agena B | Alouette 2
United States Air ForceSpace Launch Complex 2E — Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
The launch vehicle successfully inserted its payload(s) into the target orbit(s).
mission
- Name
- Alouette 2
- Type
- Earth Science
- Target orbit
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Canadian small ionospheric observatory instrumented with a sweep-frequency ionospheric sounder, a VLF receiver, an energetic particle experiment, a cosmic noise experiment, and an electrostatic probe.
schedule
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vehicle & provider
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2 Agena B
- Family
- Thor
- Variant
- SLV-2 Agena B
- Provider
- United States Air Force
- Type
- Government
- Country
- USA
launch site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 2E
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- USA
- Timezone
- America/Los_Angeles
- Coordinates
- 34.7516, -120.6192