OGO-5 (Orbiting Geophysical Observatory E / EGO 3), a NASA multi-experiment science satellite launched on an Atlas-SLV3 Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-13 into a highly elliptical Earth orbit to study the magnetosphere, plasma, and radiation environment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 611 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 12 Atlas SLV-3A Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 4 March 1968, 13:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3A Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 13, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1968-014
- Launches in 1968
- 15th of 128
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