OV3-3, a USAF Orbiting Vehicle 3 research satellite for radiation-belt particle and fields experiments. Scout B from Vandenberg SLC-5 lofted it on 4 August 1966 into polar LEO; third flight of the OV3 series.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 77 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 4 August 1966, 10:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1966-070
- Launches in 1966
- 77th of 131
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