Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
04:33:00
Wednesday December 22, 1965
The Transit-O series of satellites that closely followed the design of Transit 5C-1 were also called “Oscars” (Oscar is the phonetic alphabet for “O”, i. e., operational). They were also called NNS (Navy Navigation Satellite) or shortened NavSat. The Transit-O series had one important change: Hysteresis rods were installed on the solar panels to dampen the residual motion after the satellite despin operation in orbit following launch).
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
58 kilograms
29th
Mission
5th
Mission of 1965
120th
Orbital launch attempt