Transit-O 20 (NNS 30200 / OPS 6431), an operational US Navy Transit navigation satellite for the Navy Navigation Satellite System. Scout A-1 from Vandenberg SLC-5 placed the craft in polar LEO; final flight of the Scout A rocket family.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 64 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Scout A-1 flight
- Date and time
- 30 October 1973, 00:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout A-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1973-081
- Launches in 1973
- 88th of 116
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