Relay 2, NASA's second Relay active communications satellite, also carrying radiation-belt particle experiments. Thor Delta B from Cape Canaveral LC-17B placed it in a highly elliptical orbit on 21 January 1964; one transponder operated into 1967.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 83 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 9 Thor Delta B flights
- Date and time
- 21 January 1964, 21:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1964-003
- Launches in 1964
- 3rd of 100
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