OPS 8464 (Transit O-5 / NNS 30050), a U.S. Navy Transit navigation satellite launched with NRL radar-calibration secondary payloads (Dodecapole 2, Tempsat-1, Long Rod, Calsphere 4A, SURCAL 5) on the final Thor-Ablestar from Vandenberg; Transit O-5 failed a few weeks after launch.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 79 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 19th
- of 19 Thor DM-21 Ablestar flights
- Date and time
- 13 August 1965, 22:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DM-21 Ablestar
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1965-065
- Launches in 1965
- 73rd of 124
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