OPS 1509 (Transit-O 6 / NNS 30060), a U.S. Navy Transit operational navigation satellite. Scout A from Vandenberg PALC-D launched it into polar LEO on 22 December 1965—the maiden flight of Scout A; the spacecraft later failed within about eleven months.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 51 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 11 Scout A flights
- Date and time
- 22 December 1965, 04:33 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout A
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1965-109
- Launches in 1965
- 120th of 124
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