OPS 8386

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 20 May 1965, 04:30 pm UTC

Rocket: Thor Burner 1 (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Government/Top Secret

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 10W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

Mission Description

The single DSAP-3 (Defense Satellite Application Program Block 3) was a modified DSAP-2 satellite to provide experimental tactical access to weather data.