Thor DM-21 Agena-B | Alouette 1
Status: Success | Launched: Sep 29, 1962 06:05 UTC
Launch Provider & Rocket
- Provider: United States Air Force (Government)
- Rocket: Thor DM-21 Agena-B — Thor family
Mission
Canadian small ionospheric observatory instrumented with an ionospheric sounder, a VLF receiver, an energetic particle detector, and a cosmic noise experiment.
- Type: Earth Science
- Orbit: Low Earth Orbit (LEO)
Launch Site
- Pad: Space Launch Complex 2E
- Location: Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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