DMSP-5D1 F3 (OPS 6182), a US Air Force Defense Meteorological Satellite Program Block 5D-1 polar weather satellite. Thor DSV-2U from Vandenberg SLC-10W placed it in sun-synchronous orbit with OLS cloud imagery and space-environment sensors.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 5 Thor DSV-2U flights
- Date and time
- 1 May 1978, 03:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor DSV-2U
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 10W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-042
- Launches in 1978
- 43rd of 128
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