Navy/DoD multi-payload rideshare (LOFTI 2, SECOR 1, Poppy 1/Solrad 4A, Injun 2, Surcal 1) on Thor DM-21 Ablestar from Cape Canaveral. The Ablestar upper stage produced insufficient thrust and none of the satellites reached orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 9th
- of 19 Thor DM-21 Ablestar flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 1962, 09:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Dedicated Rideshare
- Launches in 1962
- 2nd of 81