USAF Thor SLV-2 Agena B Alouette 2

Name: USAF Thor SLV-2 Agena B Alouette 2
Start: 1965-11-29T04:48:47.000Z
Location: Space Launch Complex 2E

Thor SLV-2 Agena B

Status

Success

Date

29 NOV 1965

04:48

Launch Provider

United States Air Force

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 2E

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Overview

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.

Rocket

Thor SLV-2 Agena B

Mission Type

Earth Science

Orbit

Low Earth Orbit

Stages

Livestream

Not available

Rocket Details

Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The rockets used Thor first stages and Agena second stages. They are thus cousins of the more-famous Thor-Deltas, which founded the Delta rocket family.

Height

27.2 m

Diameter

2.44 m

Launch Mass

56 T

Thrust

756 kN