Atlas-Centaur AC-8, a NASA Centaur development flight carrying a Surveyor mass model (SM-2). Atlas LV-3C Centaur-D from Cape Canaveral LC-36B launched on 8 April 1966; the Centaur second burn failed, so the highly elliptical test did not achieve full success.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 785 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 7 Atlas LV-3C Centaur D flights
- Date and time
- 8 April 1966, 01:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas LV-3C Centaur D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1966-030
- Launches in 1966
- 34th of 131
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