OPS 6582 (Transit O-2 / NNS 30020), a U.S. Navy Transit operational navigation satellite launched with Transit 5E-5 radiation research payload on a Thor DSV-2A Ablestar from Vandenberg; Transit O-2 failed days after becoming operational.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 131 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 16th
- of 19 Thor DM-21 Ablestar flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 1964, 00:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1964-083
- Launches in 1964
- 96th of 100
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
View satellites in Space Atlas