Tuesday, August 9, 1994

Echo 2A

 1962-S14


The AVT-1 launch used a DSV-2D Thor to launch an A-12 balloon on a suborbital mission. Flight Canister 5 was originally planned for the mission, but after a launch scrub on Jan 11 Flight Canister 6 was used.

The canister was an oblate spheroid 1.1m dia 0.64m high containing a 41m diameter balloon. A camera and recovery capsule were attached to the Thor forward adapter.


AVT-1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1962 Jan 15  1107:01  Launch by Thor DSV-2D  CCAFS LC17A 
 1109  T+2:21 MECO 4.27km/s(rel) 200 km? 
  T+2:26 Fairing sep 
  T+2:33 VECO 
  T+2:44 Canister ejected 1.6m/s 
  T+2:45 Thor retro 2.4m/s 
 1110:06  T+3:05 Capsule halves separate at 15.2 m/s 
 1110 A-12 inflation 
  A-12 ruptured 
 1119?  T+12m? Apogee 1480 km? 
 1129T+22:35 Data capsule sep 
 1152Data capsule recovered 

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