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Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | OAO 1

OAO 1

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Launch Details

Date: 8 Apr 1966, 07:35 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas SLV-3 Agena D (Atlas)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Planetary Science

Orbit: Low Earth Orbit

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

Mission Description

OAO 1 (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 1) was a solar-cell-powered satellite instrumented to make precision astronomical observations and to measure the absorption and emission characteristics of the stars, planets, nebulae, and the interplanetary and interstellar media from visible to gamma-ray regions.