STARAD (Star-Rad 1 / Corona 54), a USAF radiation-monitoring payload on an Agena-D stage, launched from Vandenberg into a highly elliptical orbit to measure the artificial radiation belt created by the July 1962 Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 315 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 13 Thor Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 26 October 1962, 16:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-058
- Launches in 1962
- 66th of 81
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