Alouette 2

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 29 Nov 1965, 04:48 am UTC

Rocket: Thor SLV-2 Agena B (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

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.