Alouette 1 with TAVE piggyback, Canada’s first satellite and an ionospheric observatory (sounder, VLF receiver, particle detector, cosmic-noise experiment), launched on a Thor DM-21 Agena-B from Vandenberg into a near-circular ~1000 km, 80.5° orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 236 kg
- Flight
- 36th
- of 40 Thor DM-21 Agena-B flights
- Date and time
- 29 September 1962, 06:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Agena-B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1962-049
- Launches in 1962
- 56th of 81
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