Ionospheric research.

Typical orbit: 743 x 1864 km, 80.1 deg inclinaton. Mass: 145 kg (319 lb). Associated Launch Vehicle: Thor Agena B, Thor Agena B SLV-2A (B).

• 1962 September 29 - Alouette 1 - Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Vehicle: Thor Agena B. Mass: 145 kg (319 lb). Perigee: 987 km (613 mi). Apogee: 1,022 km (635 mi). Inclination: 80.50 deg. Period: 105.20 min.

  Ionospheric research. Spacecraft engaged in research and exploration of the upper atmosphere or outer space (US Cat B).

• 1965 November 29 - Alouette 2 - Launch Site: Vandenberg. Launch Vehicle: Thor Agena B. Mass: 145 kg (319 lb). Perigee: 503 km (312 mi). Apogee: 2,666 km (1,656 mi). Inclination: 79.80 deg. Period: 117.90 min.

  Ionospheric research; data correlated with Explorer 31. The double-launch project, known as ISIS-X was the first in a new co-operative NASA-Canadian Defense Research Board program for International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies. Alouette was in orbit with an apogee just over a kilometre lower than Explorer 31's and with a perigee of just more than a kilometre higher. The orbits were some 3000 km at apogee and 500 km at perigee.

• McDowell, Jonathan, Launch Log, October 1998. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited since Sputnik. Accessed at: http://hea-www.harvard.edu/~jcm/space/log/launch.html.

• NASA Report, Results from Alouette 1, Explorer 20, Alouette 2, and Explorer 31, . Accessed at: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19900020374_1990020374.pdf. -right click to download pdfs!

• NASA Report, Alouette-ISIS Program Summary, . Accessed at: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19880006813_1988006813.pdf. -right click to download pdfs!

• McDowell, Jonathan, Jonathan's Space Home Page, Harvard University, 1997-present. Jonathan McDowell's complete on-line listing of all objects orbited and over 20,000 rocket launches Accessed at: http://www.planet4589.org/jsr.html.

• NASA Report, A STUDY OF EARTH RADAR RETURNS FROM ALOUETTE SATELLITE SEMIANNUAL REPORT, . Accessed at: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19660084907_1966084907.pdf. -right click to download pdfs!

• NASA Report, The Alouette II Satellite, . Accessed at: http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19670009105_1967009105.pdf. -right click to download pdfs!

• Krebs, Gunter, Gunter's Space Page, University of Frankfurt, 1996. Accessed at: http://www.skyrocket.de/space.

• JPL Mission and Spacecraft Library, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 1997. Accessed at: http://msl.jpl.nasa.gov/home.html.

• USAF Satellite Database, USAF Institute of Technology, 1995. Accessed at: ftp://archive.afit.af.mil/pub/space/.