Orbiting Frog Otolith (OFO-A), a NASA Ames biology satellite launched on a Scout B from Wallops Island carrying two bullfrogs to study inner-ear (otolith) response to weightlessness over about six days in LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 201 kg
- Flight
- 16th
- of 20 Scout B flights
- Date and time
- 9 November 1970, 06:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout B
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Biology
- International designator
- 1970-094
- Launches in 1970
- 102nd of 124
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