DSAP-1 F3

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 19 Feb 1963, 04:52 pm UTC

Rocket: Scout X-3M (Scout)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Government/Top Secret

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

The DSAP-1 (Defense Satellite Application Program Block 1) satellites series, also known as P-35, was the first series of military meteorologal satellites of the USA.