OSO-1 (OSO-A), NASA's first Orbiting Solar Observatory for continuous solar X-ray, UV, and gamma-ray measurements, launched on a Thor DM-19 Delta from Cape Canaveral LC-17A on 7 March 1962. It returned solar data until mid-1964 and decayed in October 1981.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 208 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 12 Thor Delta flights
- Date and time
- 7 March 1962, 16:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1962-006
- Launches in 1962
- 8th of 81
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