OSO C, a NASA Orbiting Solar Observatory intended for solar X-ray and related astrophysics measurements. Thor Delta C from Cape Canaveral LC-17B failed on 25 August 1965 and the spacecraft never reached orbit; a later OSO flight succeeded in 1967 as OSO 3.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 8th
- of 10 Thor Delta C flights
- Date and time
- 25 August 1965, 15:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta C
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- Launches in 1965
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