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Echo 2
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 25 Jan 1964, 01:59 pm UTC
Rocket: Thor SLV-2 Agena B (Thor)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Communications
Orbit: Low Earth Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
The Echo 2 spacecraft was a 41-m balloon of aluminum foil-mylar laminate. Echo 2 was designed as a rigidized passive communications spacecraft for testing propagation, tracking, and communication techniques.