OAO-3 (Copernicus), NASA's Orbiting Astronomical Observatory with an 80 cm ultraviolet telescope, launched on an Atlas SLV-3 Centaur from Cape Canaveral; final flight of Atlas SLV-3C Centaur.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 21 August 1972, 10:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1972-065
- Launches in 1972
- 69th of 113
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