MISSION NAME
Alouette 2 2
Status
Success
DATE
29 NOV 1965
LAUNCH PROVIDER
United States Air Force
Launch Pad
Space Launch Complex 2E
Description
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.
Thor SLV-2 Agena B
Rocket Description
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.