OGO-2 (POGO-1), NASA’s polar Orbiting Geophysical Observatory with 20 experiments on aurora, airglow, ionosphere, and magnetosphere. Thor SLV-2A Agena-D from Vandenberg lofted it on 14 October 1965; attitude-control gas was exhausted within about nine days, limiting later operations.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 507 kg
- Flight
- 42nd
- of 61 Thor SLV-2A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 14 October 1965, 13:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor SLV-2A Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1965-081
- Launches in 1965
- 91st of 124
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