Triad 2 (TIP 2), a U.S. Navy Transit Improvement Program navigation satellite launched on a Scout D-1 from Vandenberg with pulsed plasma thrusters for drag compensation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 160 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 15 Scout D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 12 October 1975, 06:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout D-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1975-099
- Launches in 1975
- 103rd of 132
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