LAUNCH CENTER

Success

Wed Apr 26 1967

National Research Council

San Marco 2

Launch Successful

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RECOVERY OVERVIEW

Location

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Rocket Details

Name:

Scout B

Description:

The Scout family of rockets were were American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth. The Scout multistage rocket was the first orbital launch vehicle to be entirely composed of solid fuel stages.

MISSION OVERVIEW

Type: Earth Science
San Marco 2 was a 66-cm-diameter spherical satellite with two experiments, one designed to make direct measurements of air density below 350 km, and the other an ionospheric beacon experiment developed to observe electron content between the earth and the satellite.

COMPLEX OVERVIEW

Location

Broglio Space Center, Kenya

Pad

San Marco platform