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Thor DM-21 Ablestar | Transit-O 5
Thor DM-21 Ablestar
Aug 13, 1965, 10:11 PM UTC
Aug 13, 1965, 10:11 PM UTC
Mission Elapsed Time
T-00:00:00
Mission Details
The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat.
- Type
- Navigation
- Orbit
- Polar Orbit (PO)
Launch Site
- Pad
- Space Launch Complex 2E
- Location
- Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Country
- 🇺🇸 USA
Weather at Launch
- Temp
- 22.5°C
- Wind
- 21 km/h @ 295°
- Sky
- Clear
- Source
- open-meteo-archive