Beacon 2, a NASA 12-foot inflatable balloon satellite for atmospheric-density studies, launched on a Juno II from Cape Canaveral on 15 August 1959. After a nominal first stage, the upper stages lost control when the guidance compartment depressurized and the payload never reached orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 4th
- of 10 Juno II flights
- Date and time
- 15 August 1959, 00:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Juno II
- Builder
- Chrysler
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 26B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Target
- Launches in 1959
- 14th of 23