OAO B (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory B / Goddard), a NASA ultraviolet astronomy satellite with a 36-inch Cassegrain telescope and spectrophotometer. Atlas-Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B failed when the payload shroud did not separate on 30 November 1970.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 9th
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 30 November 1970, 22:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- Launches in 1970
- 110th of 124