Transit 5A-3, a U.S. Navy prototype operational Transit navigation satellite. Scout X-3 from Point Arguello placed it in polar LEO; launch vibration damaged the memory and oscillator so it could not store navigation messages, but it was the first to achieve gravity-gradient stabilization.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 61 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 5 Scout X-3 flights
- Date and time
- 16 June 1963, 01:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout X-3
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1963-022
- Launches in 1963
- 31st of 69
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