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Orbiting Vehicle 2-1, was the first satellite of the second iteration of the United States Air Force's Orbiting Vehicle program. OV2-1 was an American life science research satellite designed for long-term measurement of radiation in orbit. Launched October 15, 1965, the mission resulted in failure when the upper stage of OV2-1's Titan IIIC booster broke up.
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- ↑ NASA: 2001-043B
- 1 2 3 4 SpaceRef: Optical Precision Platform Experiment
- ↑ University Corporation for Atmospheric Research: Further Overview of Ionospheric Occultation Experiment and Global Positioning System Receiver Archived 2010-06-14 at the Wayback Machine August 2002 Workshop
- 1 2 Gunters Space Page: PICOSat (P97-1)