Transit 5A-1, a U.S. Navy navigation-satellite technology craft for the Transit (NAVSAT) system, launched on a Scout X-3 from Point Arguello LC-D on 19 December 1962. It reached polar low Earth orbit, but its power system failed within a day of operations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 59 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 5 Scout X-3 flights
- Date and time
- 19 December 1962, 01:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-3
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1962-071
- Launches in 1962
- 80th of 81
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