OPS 8480 (Transit O-4 / NNS 30040), a U.S. Navy operational Transit navigation satellite. Thor DSV-2A Ablestar from Vandenberg lofted it on 24 June 1965 into polar LEO; the spacecraft later failed within about eleven months from manufacturing defects.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 54 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 18th
- of 19 Thor DM-21 Ablestar flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 1965, 22:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1965-048
- Launches in 1965
- 54th of 124
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