Sunday, October 10, 1971

OV2-05

 1968-081A


OV2-5 was launched on flight P67-2 of the Space Test Program. The OV2-5 satellite was intended to carry out the ORBIS HIGH ionospheric beacon experiment, but the satellite apparently malfunctioned. The SSD-651, SSD-602 and SSD-606 returned good data; SSD-605 and SSD-607 failed. It appears that the magnetometer booms did not deploy correctly.

Total Titan 3C payload was 531 kg.


OV2-5 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1968 Sep 26  0737:01  Launch by Titan 3C  CK 
  T+0:02:01 SRM sep 
  T+0:02? St 1 burn 
  T+0:04:17 St 1 sep 
  T+0:04:41 Fairing sep
  T+0:07:38 Titan Stage 2 MECO   
 0744  T+7:51 Transtage burn 1   
 0745  T+8:08 MECO-1 150? x 180? x 28.6?  
 0844? Transtage MES-2  
 0849? Transtage MECO-2  
1968 Sep 26    630.3 184 x 35787 x 26.4 (RAE) 
 0850? OV5-2 released 
 1359? Transtage MES-3 circ burn 
 1400? MECO-3 
  S+0:00 OV5-4 released at 1.5m/s perpendicular 
 1400? S+0:17 LES 6 released at 1.2m/s in opposite dir 
 1401? Transtage MES-4 lower orbit to sub-synch, 32s 8.8m/s 
 1401? MECO-4 
 1401? MECO-4 + 17s OV2-5 released at 1m/s  1417.9 35116 x 35816 x 2.9 
  
1968 Nov 26    1417.98 35064 x 35798 x 2.9 

Payload:

  • SSD-601 Electron flux monitor

  • SSD-602 Particle spectrometer

  • SSD-605 Very high energy particles

  • SSD-606 Low Energy Particles

  • SSD-607 Low Energy Spectrometer

  • SSD-609 Angular Distribution of Electrons

  • SSD-610 VLF antenna

  • SSD-651 Lyman Alpha scanning photometer

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