OGO-1 (OGO-A), NASA’s first Orbiting Geophysical Observatory for magnetospheric and near-Earth space research, launched on an Atlas LV-3A Agena-B from Cape Canaveral into a highly elliptical orbit; two booms failed to deploy, forcing spin-stabilized operations that still returned useful data for years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 487 kg
- Flight
- 27th
- of 29 Atlas LV-3 Agena B flights
- Date and time
- 5 September 1964, 01:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3 Agena B
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1964-054
- Launches in 1964
- 64th of 100
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