DMSP-5C F3 (OPS 5140), a U.S. Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program weather satellite from Vandenberg on a Thor Burner 2A. A Thor fuel-load calculation error put it into a too-low orbit and it reentered after roughly one revolution.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 195 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 8 Thor Burner 2A flights
- Date and time
- 19 February 1976, 07:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Burner 2A
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 10W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-016
- Launches in 1976
- 17th of 131
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