United States Air Force

OV2-5

Titan IIIC

SUCCESS
Success

Thursday, September 26, 1968 · 07:37 UTC

Mission

/01

The OV2 (Orbiting Vehicle 2) series satellites were originally built for project ARENTS (Advanced Research Environmental Test Satellite), which was intended to obtain supporting data for the Vela program. After the cancellation of the ARENTS program, the already built hardware was reused for OV2, a low-cost series of experimental satellites, which were to be launched for free on Titan-3C test flights to very different orbits.

Mission Type

Astrophysics

Orbit

Geosynchronous Orbit (GSO)

Probability

N/A

Status

Launch Successful

Vehicle & Pad

/02

Rocket

Titan IIIC

Variant: IIIC

Launch Pad

Space Launch Complex 41

Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

28.583° N, 80.583° W

8

Pad Launches

222

Location Launches

463

Agency Launches

92

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