P-698BK Group 1-D 2 (OPS 1440 / mission 7154), a U.S. Air Force Heavy Ferret ELINT/SIGINT satellite mapping Soviet radars, with Plymouth Rock 2 (Aftrack 34) SIGINT aux payload. Thor-SLV2A Agena-B from Vandenberg lofted them on 29 June 1963; it set a 10-day Ferret operations record with ~140,000 intercepts.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 439 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Thor SLV-2A Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 29 June 1963, 22:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena B
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1963-027
- Launches in 1963
- 36th of 69
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