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

Launch vehicle

Thor DM-21 Agena-B →

Launch provider

United States Air Force →

Payloads deployed · 1

ALOUETTE 1 (S-27)

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