ANNA 1B (Army-Navy-NASA-Air Force), a U.S. tri-service geodetic research satellite for precise Earth gravity-field and position measurements via optical flashes and Doppler tracking. Thor DM-21 Ablestar from Cape Canaveral LC-17A placed it in LEO after the earlier ANNA 1A launch had failed.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 157 kg
- Flight
- 11th
- of 19 Thor DM-21 Ablestar flights
- Date and time
- 31 October 1962, 08:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1962-060
- Launches in 1962
- 68th of 81
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