Pegasus 2 micrometeoroid detection satellite, launched with Apollo boilerplate BP-26 on Saturn I SA-8 from Cape Canaveral LC-37B on 25 May 1965. The large wing-like detector panels measured micrometeoroid flux in LEO to support Apollo spacecraft design.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 6 Saturn I flights
- Date and time
- 25 May 1965, 07:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Saturn I
- Builder
- Chrysler
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1965-039
- Launches in 1965
- 44th of 124
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas