Scout B | San Marco 2
Status: Success | Launched: Apr 26, 1967 10:06 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: National Research Council (Government)
- Rocket: Scout B — Scout family
Mission
San Marco 2 was a 66-cm-diameter spherical satellite with two experiments, one designed to make direct measurements of air density below 350 km, and the other an ionospheric beacon experiment developed to observe electron content between the earth and the satellite.
- Type: Earth Science
- Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Site
- Pad: San Marco platform
- Location: Broglio Space Center, Kenya
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Launch data sourced automatically from the Launch Library 2 API. Last refreshed: 2026-10-06T21:02:13.006858+00:00.