SNAPSHOT (OPS 4682 / SNAP-10A), the first U.S. nuclear reactor in space, launched with Army SECOR-4 geodesy satellite on an Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D from Vandenberg into polar LEO; reactor operated about 43 days before Agena electrical failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 454 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 3 April 1965, 21:25 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1965-027
- Launches in 1965
- 31st of 124
See it in orbit
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Object pages on Space Atlas: SNAPSHOT
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