Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
01:23:00
Saturday September 5, 1964
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Orbiting Geophysical Observatory (OGO) Program of NASA refers to the six satellites launched by the United States that were in use from September 1964 to 1972, designed to study the Earth's magnetosphere. The satellites successfully studied the interactions between the Earth and the Sun, despite a number of technical problems.
Highly Elliptical Orbit
1 Payload
487 kilograms

42nd
Mission
10th
Mission of 1964
64th
Orbital launch attempt