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    Orbiting Vehicle 3-6 (also known as OV3-6 and ATCOS 2 (ATmospheric COmposition Satellite 2)), launched 5 December 1967, was the sixth and last satellite...
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    were launched and thirty seven reached orbit. With the exception of the OV3 series and OV4-3, they were launched as secondary payloads, using excess...
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    Orbiting Vehicle 3-3 (also known as OV3-3), launched 4 August 1966, was the third satellite to be launched in the OV3 series of the United States Air Force's...
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    Orbiting Vehicle 3-2 (also known as OV3-2), launched 28 October 1966, was the fourth satellite to be launched in the OV3 series of the United States Air Force's...
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    Vehicle 3-4 (also known as OV3-4, PHASR, and OPS 1427), launched 10 June 1966, was the second satellite to be launched in the OV3 series of the United States...
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    known as OV3-5 and ATmospheric COmposition Satellite or ATCOS: 417 ), launched 31 January 1967, was the fifth satellite to be launched in the OV3 series...
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    Orbiting Vehicle 3-1 (also known as OV3-1 and OPS 1527 ), launched 22 April 1966, was the first satellite in the OV3 series of the United States Air Force's...
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    orbit Successful 31 January 12:45 Scout B SLC-5, Vandenberg AFB US Air Force OV3-5 US Air Force Low Earth orbit Magnetosphere research satellite 31 January...
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  • Re-entry test 5 December 1967 01:03 Scout B S158C Vandenberg SLC-5 Successful OV3-6 Low Earth USAF Ionospheric Research 2 March 1968 03:55 Scout A S162C Vandenberg...
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    experiments in orbit. The Mk. 1 was a regular tetrahedron measuring 16 cm (6.3 in) on a side, each face mounted with sufficient solar cells to operate...
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    The 28 October 1966 launch of the U.S. Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle 3-2 (OV3-2) was timed such that it could observe ambient charged particle variations...
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    between 1962 and 1994. Satellites launched from the complex included Transit, OV3, Explorer and P35 (DMSP) spacecraft. Most of the satellites launched from...
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  • OV2 — July 22, 1995 Kitt Peak Spacewatch EOS 4.7 km MPC · JPL 79266 1995 OV3 — July 22, 1995 Kitt Peak Spacewatch  · 1.5 km MPC · JPL 79267 1995 OE6 —...
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  • OU3 — March 30, 2011 Haleakala Pan-STARRS  · 1.5 km MPC · JPL 531284 2012 OV3 — May 21, 2006 Kitt Peak Spacewatch  · 2.2 km MPC · JPL 531285 2012 OD4 —...
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    SE220 7 July 2007 list (323449) 2004 HY30 21 April 2004 list (323754) 2005 OV3 28 July 2005 list (323765) 2005 PM18 11 August 2005 list (324344) 2006 QH10...
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  • 1.8 km MPC · JPL 202748 2007 OV3 — July 18, 2007 Eskridge Farpoint Obs.  · 2.4 km MPC · JPL 202749 2007 PH3 — August 6, 2007 Siding Spring SSS  · 4.5...
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  • 77698 2001 OL3 — July 17, 2001 Palomar NEAT  · 5.2 km MPC · JPL 77699 2001 OV3 — July 18, 2001 Palomar NEAT EOS 4.0 km MPC · JPL 77700 2001 OP4 — July 19...
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  • (200006) 2007 LG 6 June 2007 list [B] (200026) 2007 PD2 7 August 2007 list [B] (200334) 2000 HO11 30 April 2000 list [B] (202748) 2007 OV3 18 July 2007 list [B]...
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    list (166677) 2002 TH99 3 October 2002 list (166966) 2003 OT1 21 July 2003 list (166969) 2003 OR3 22 July 2003 list (166970) 2003 OV3 22 July 2003 list...
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    This information proved even more useful when combined with the data set of OV3-2, an U.S. Air Force satellite in orbit concurrently. Spaceflight portal...
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    (1998). A Man on the Moon. New York: Penguin Books. p. 243. ISBN 0-670-81446-6. Mathews, Charles W.; Low, George M. (January 1967). "Gemini XII Program Mission...
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  • 2004 Catalina CSS EUP 6.9 km MPC · JPL 250518 2004 NE31 — July 11, 2004 Anderson Mesa LONEOS  · 4.7 km MPC · JPL 250519 2004 OV3 — July 17, 2004 Socorro...
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  • — October 13, 2016 Haleakala Pan-STARRS  · 1.7 km MPC · JPL 702603 2006 OV3 — June 11, 2006 Palomar NEAT PHO 1.2 km MPC · JPL 702604 2006 OA17 — July...
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    Harris, A.W., Pravec, P. (2009). Icarus 202, 134-146. Updated 2016 September 6. See: www.MinorPlanet.info Calculated from an assumed albedo of 0.05–0.25...
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    the Scout X configuration. The last Scout launch from the pad occurred on 6 November 1964. On 7 March 1970, a Nike-Apache and four Nike-Iroquois rockets...
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    2008 JJ22 1 May 2008 list (378700) 2008 MU 26 June 2008 list (378702) 2008 OV3 25 July 2008 list (378707) 2008 PP6 2 August 2008 list (378711) 2008 PP16...
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    waves using data gathered by FR-1. Data received from the VLF receiver on OV3-3, launched 4 August 1966, determined the location of the plasmapause. In...
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  • — July 22, 2003 Campo Imperatore CINEOS  · 1.1 km MPC · JPL 166970 2003 OV3 — July 22, 2003 Campo Imperatore CINEOS MAS 1.3 km MPC · JPL 166971 2003...
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  • OL — July 16, 2005 Kitt Peak Spacewatch  · 1.4 km MPC · JPL 323754 2005 OV3 — July 28, 2005 Reedy Creek J. Broughton  · 1.4 km MPC · JPL 323755 2005...
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  • 426028 2011 OV3 — January 3, 2009 Mount Lemmon Mount Lemmon Survey  · 2.5 km MPC · JPL 426029 2011 PA2 — February 23, 2010 WISE WISE  · 6.2 km MPC · JPL...
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