OAO-2 (Stargazer), NASA's first successful Orbiting Astronomical Observatory and first long-lived space telescope, launched on an Atlas SLV-3C Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B for ultraviolet astronomy from about 750 km altitude.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 7 December 1968, 08:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1968-110
- Launches in 1968
- 119th of 128
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Object pages on Space Atlas: OAO 2
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