OV3-6 (ATCOS 2), a US Air Force Office of Aerospace Research magnetospheric and ionospheric science satellite. Scout B from Vandenberg SLC-5 lofted it on 5 December 1967 into polar LEO; it reentered on 9 March 1969.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 99 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 1967, 01:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1967-120
- Launches in 1967
- 132nd of 139
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