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Thor SLV-2 Agena B

In-active

McDonnell Douglas (MDC)

Jan. 25, 1964

Description

Thor-Agena was a series of orbital launch vehicles. The rockets used Thor first stages and Agena second stages. They are thus cousins of the more-famous Thor-Deltas, which founded the Delta rocket family.

Specifications

Stages
2
Length
27.2 m
Diameter
2.44 m
Fairing Diameter
2.44 m
Launch Mass
56.0 T
Thrust
756.0 kN

Family

Name
Thor SLV-2 Agena B
Family
―
Variant
SLV-2 Agena B
Alias
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Full Name
Thor SLV-2 Agena B

Payload Capacity

Launch Cost
$19560000
Low Earth Orbit
400.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit
―
Direct Geostationary
―
Sun-Synchronous Capacity
―

McDonnell Douglas

Commercial

None

MDC

None

Previous Flights

flew on three previous launch(es).

Thor SLV-2 Agena B | Alouette 2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Nov. 29, 1965, 4:48 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Canadian small ionospheric observatory instrumented with a sweep-frequency ionospheric sounder, a VLF receiver, an energetic particle experiment, a cosmic noise experiment, and an electrostatic probe.

Low Earth Orbit

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Thor SLV-2 Agena B | Nimbus 1

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Aug. 28, 1964, 7:56 a.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

Nimbus 1, the first in a series of second-generation meteorological research-and-development satellites, was designed to serve as a stabilized, earth-oriented platform for the testing of advanced meteorological sensor systems and for collecting meteorological data.

Polar Orbit

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Thor SLV-2 Agena B | Echo 2

McDonnell Douglas | United States of America
Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Jan. 25, 1964, 1:59 p.m.

Status: Launch Successful

Mission:

The Echo 2 spacecraft was a 41-m balloon of aluminum foil-mylar laminate. Echo 2 was designed as a rigidized passive communications spacecraft for testing propagation, tracking, and communication techniques.

Low Earth Orbit

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