Atlas-Centaur AC-2, the first successful flight of the Centaur liquid-hydrogen upper stage. Atlas LV-3C Centaur-B from Cape Canaveral LC-36A lofted the instrumented stage into a 474×1,586 km orbit on 27 November 1963, five days after President Kennedy's assassination.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 4 Atlas LV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 27 November 1963, 19:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1963-047
- Launches in 1963
- 60th of 69
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