DMSP Block 4A F7 (OPS 6026), a U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program weather satellite launched on a Thor Burner 2 from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit for military cloud-cover reconnaissance.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 79 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 12 Thor Burner 2 flights
- Date and time
- 16 September 1966, 04:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Burner 2
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 10W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1966-082
- Launches in 1966
- 90th of 131
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