Transit 5A-2, a U.S. Navy operational-prototype navigation satellite built by JHU/APL, launched on a Scout X-3 from Vandenberg LC-D into a planned polar orbit; the launcher failed and the payload never reached orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 5 Scout X-3 flights
- Date and time
- 5 April 1963, 03:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-3
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- Launches in 1963
- 13th of 69