Azur (GRS A), West Germany's first satellite, launched on a Scout B from Vandenberg into a highly elliptical polar orbit for ionospheric and radiation-belt research under BMWF/DLR, measuring auroral and magnetospheric particle fluxes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 78 kg
- Flight
- 15th
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 8 November 1969, 01:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1969-097
- Launches in 1969
- 110th of 125
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