OV3-2, a U.S. Air Force Orbiting Vehicle 3 research satellite for radiation-belt particle and fields experiments. Scout B from Vandenberg SLC-5 successfully placed it in polar LEO on 28 October 1966; it reentered on 29 September 1971.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 82 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 28 October 1966, 11:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1966-097
- Launches in 1966
- 107th of 131
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