FR-1 (France 1), the second French satellite and a CNES/CNET/NASA ionospheric research craft, launched on a Scout X-4 from Vandenberg; it measured VLF wave propagation and electron density in the ionosphere, plasmasphere, and magnetosphere for nearly three years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 62 kg
- Flight
- 12th
- of 12 Scout X-4 flights
- Date and time
- 6 December 1965, 21:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-4
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1965-101
- Launches in 1965
- 112th of 124
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