1965 · United States Air Force

Alouette 2

successThor SLV-2 Agena B | Alouette 2

Canadian small ionospheric observatory instrumented with a sweep-frequency ionospheric sounder, a VLF receiver, an energetic particle experiment, a cosmic noise experiment, and an electrostatic probe.

Overview

Date / time: November 29, 1965 at 04:48 AM UTC
Outcome: success
Launch site: Space Launch Complex 2E
Mission: Alouette 2
Mission type: Earth Science
Orbit achieved: Low Earth Orbit

Launch vehicle

Thor SLV-2 Agena B →

Launch provider

United States Air Force →

Payloads deployed · 2