1962 · United States Air Force
Alouette 1
successThor DM-21 Agena-B | Alouette 1
Canadian small ionospheric observatory instrumented with an ionospheric sounder, a VLF receiver, an energetic particle detector, and a cosmic noise experiment.
Overview
- Date / time
- September 29, 1962 at 06:05 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E
- Mission
- Alouette 1
- Mission type
- Earth Science
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit