DSAP-4A F3 (OPS 7202 / DMSP Block 4A F3), a U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program weather satellite for day/night cloud-cover imaging. Thor Burner 2 from Vandenberg lofted it into sun-synchronous orbit on 23 August 1967.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 79 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 12 Thor Burner 2 flights
- Date and time
- 23 August 1967, 04:41 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Burner 2
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 10W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1967-080
- Launches in 1967
- 88th of 139
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