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Relay 2

Launch Successful

Launch 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.