Friday, March 19, 2010

Transit O-2

  1964-083D


NNS O-2 (30020, Oscar 2) was launched on 1964 Dec 13 by Thor Ablestar, but ran into troubles in less than a month. However, the beacon was still transmitting in 2010, which would make it the oldest working satellite.


NNS O-2 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1964 Dec 13  0008:10 Launch by Thor Ablestar  V 75-1 Pad 2 
 0010:38  Thor MECO (T+2:28) 
 0010:42  Thor sep (T+2:32) 
 0010:42  AB 017 burn (T+2:32) 
 0015:36  AB 017 MECO (T+7:26) 
 0046?  AB 017 burn 2 
 0046?  AB 017 MECO   
 0048?  AB 017 sep  106.32 1031 x 1080 x 89.99 (VCR) 
   106.33 1025 x 1084 x 89.86 (RAE)  
1964 Dec 31   End of nav transmissions 
2010 May   136 MHz beacon still transmitting

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