Dual USAF Orbiting Vehicle flight on SM-65D Atlas from Vandenberg ABRES-B3 on 14 July 1966: OV1-8 (PasComSat), a passive communications grid-sphere satellite, reached LEO successfully, while companion OV1-7 failed to separate from its propulsion module and was lost.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 266 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 SM-65D Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 1966, 02:10 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65D Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- 576B3, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1966-063
- Launches in 1966
- 70th of 131
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