OV3-1, a USAF Office of Aerospace Research satellite for radiation-belt particle and fields experiments. Scout B from Vandenberg PALC-D launched it into polar LEO on 22 April 1966; the payload operated successfully in orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 69 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 22 April 1966, 09:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1966-034
- Launches in 1966
- 38th of 131
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