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OGO 3

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 7 June 1966, 02:48 am UTC

Rocket: Atlas SLV-3 Agena B (Atlas)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

The OGO (Orbiting Geophysical Observatory) series was a series of large, complex research satellites.