DSAP-4B F2

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 23 Oct 1968, 04:34 am UTC

Rocket: Thor Burner 2 (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit

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

Mission Description

DSAP-4B (Defense Satellite Application Program Block 4B) was the sixth version of the military meteorological satellites of the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program.