OSO 6 (Orbiting Solar Observatory G), a NASA solar-physics satellite that monitored solar X-rays and flares above the atmosphere. Thor Delta N from Cape Canaveral LC-17A on 9 August 1969; operated into early 1972.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 408 kg
- Flight
- 4th
- of 6 Thor Delta N flights
- Date and time
- 9 August 1969, 07:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta N
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1969-068
- Launches in 1969
- 79th of 125
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