OV1-2, the first successful USAF Orbiting Vehicle radiation-belt research satellite, with a suborbital SPP 29 science pod on the same Atlas D. Atlas-D OV1 from Vandenberg ABRES-B3 lofted OV1-2 on 5 October 1965 into medium Earth orbit for inner-belt measurements.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 156 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 7 SM-65D Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 5 October 1965, 09:07 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65D Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- 576B3, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1965-078
- Launches in 1965
- 88th of 124
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