OSO-4 (Orbiting Solar Observatory D), a NASA solar-physics satellite launched on a Thor Delta C from Cape Canaveral LC-17B into LEO to observe solar X-ray, UV, and other emissions above the atmosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 285 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Thor Delta C1 flights
- Date and time
- 18 October 1967, 15:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta C1
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1967-100
- Launches in 1967
- 111th of 139
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