OV1-86
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Orbiting Vehicle 1-86 was a satellite launched 27 July 1967 to measure the temperature radiation properties of different types of terrain. Part of the OV1 series of USAF satellites, using standardized
OV1-86 on a cart awaiting installation on its Atlas rocket
OV1-86 oxygen radiometer
OV1-86 launch (installed in the side SPP)
OV1-8
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Orbiting Vehicle 1-8, launched 14 July 1966, was the seventh satellite launched in the OV1 series of the United States Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle program. OV1-8 was designed to test the passive comm
OV1-86
…first triple launch of the program. It was the only OV1 satellite to be cobbled together from two of its sister satellites, utilizing the unused body on OV1-8 and the unused propulsion module on OV1-6. OV1-86's was only partially successful due to the failure of its Vertistat gravity-gradient stabilization…
OV1-8
Lt. Col. Clyde Northcott, Jr., OV1 program manager