ESRO 1A (Aurorae), a European Space Research Organisation polar science satellite launched on a Scout B from Vandenberg SLC-5 to study the aurora, ionosphere, and energetic particles in high-inclination low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 85 kg
- Flight
- 13th
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 3 October 1968, 20:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1968-084
- Launches in 1968
- 92nd of 128
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