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Relay 2
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 21 Jan 1964, 09:14 pm UTC
Rocket: Thor Delta B (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Elliptical Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Mission Description
Relay 2, although principally a communications satellite, carried particle experiments designed to map the trapped radiation belt.