1965

1965 · United States Air Force

OV2-3

successTitan IIIC | OV2-3

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.

Overview

Date / time
December 21, 1965 at 02:00 PM UTC
Outcome
success
Launch site
Space Launch Complex 41
Mission
OV2-3
Mission type
Astrophysics
Orbit achieved
Elliptical Orbit

Payloads deployed · 4