OPS 0240 (DSAP-1 F3 / P-35 3), a U.S. Air Force Defense Satellite Applications Program Block 1 military weather satellite for polar cloud-cover imaging. Only flight of the Scout X-3M, from Point Arguello LC-D on 19 February 1963, successfully reached orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 50 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Scout X-3M flight
- Date and time
- 19 February 1963, 16:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-3M
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-005
- Launches in 1963
- 6th of 69
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