Status
Success
Eole
Launch Time
Mon Aug 16, 1971 18:39 UTC
Mon Aug 16, 1971 18:39 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
Eole
Eole, a.k.a. CAS 1 (Cooperative Application Satellite), FR 2 (France), the second French experimental data relay satellite for meteorological data and the first launched by NASA under a cooperative agreement with the Centre National d'Études Spatiales (CNES), was designed to function primarily as a communications satellite to acquire and relay telemetered data on altitude, pressure, temperature, moisture, and upper atmospheric wind velocities from instrumented earth-circling constant density meteorological balloons.
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 83.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LA-3, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
Stats
1971
79th orbital launch attempt
Scout
58th mission
3rd mission of 1971
45th successful mission
7th consecutive successful mission