Tags: Artificialsatellite, Satellite.
Samos 2 was an American reconnaissance satellite launched in 1961 as part of the Samos program. It was an early electro-optical reconnaissance spacecraft meaning that it transmitted images to receiving stations on Earth rather than returning them in a film capsule. Samos 2 was a Samos-E1 spacecraft based around an Agena-A.The launch of Samos 2 occurred at 20:31:19 UTC on January 31 1961.