USAF Thor SLV-2 Agena B Echo 2

Name: USAF Thor SLV-2 Agena B Echo 2
Start: 1964-01-25T13:59:04.000Z
Location: Space Launch Complex 2E

Thor SLV-2 Agena B

Status

Success

Date

25 JAN 1964

13:59

Launch Provider

United States Air Force

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 2E

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Overview

The Echo 2 spacecraft was a 41-m balloon of aluminum foil-mylar laminate. Echo 2 was designed as a rigidized passive communications spacecraft for testing propagation, tracking, and communication techniques.

Rocket

Thor SLV-2 Agena B

Mission Type

Communications

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