OPS 5798 (Transit O-1 / NNS 30010), the first operational U.S. Navy Transit navigation satellite, co-manifested with Dragsphere 1 and 2 atmospheric-drag spheres. Thor Ablestar from Vandenberg placed them in polar orbit on 6 October 1964; Transit failed a few days after becoming operational.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 85 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 15th
- of 19 Thor DM-21 Ablestar flights
- Date and time
- 6 October 1964, 17:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1964-063
- Launches in 1964
- 73rd of 100
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