OV2-1 Mission

Launch Status

Success

Date & Time

15 Oct 1965, 5:23pm

Pad

Space Launch Complex 40

Launch Service Provider

Vehicle

Mission

OV2-1

Mission Type

Earth Science

Destination

Low Earth Orbit

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.

Updated: Jan 3, 7:54pm UTC

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