SAMOS 2 (E-1 No. 2), a USAF Satellite and Missile Observation System photoreconnaissance satellite using TV relay, launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-A from Point Arguello; one of the few early SAMOS missions to reach and operate in orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 31 January 1961, 20:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 1961-001
- Launches in 1961
- 1st of 50
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