DSAP-1 F2 (P-35 2 / Program 35 F-2), the first successful U.S. Defense Satellite Applications Program Block 1 military weather satellite for polar cloud-cover imaging. Scout X-2M from Point Arguello LC-D on 23 August 1962 placed it in orbit; operations ran until June 1963.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 50 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Scout X-2M flights
- Date and time
- 23 August 1962, 11:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-2M
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1962-039
- Launches in 1962
- 46th of 81
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