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United States Air Force
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | OAO 1
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Mission brief
The flight at a glance.
OAO 1 (Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 1) was a solar-cell-powered satellite instrumented to make precision astronomical observations and to measure the absorption and emission characteristics of the stars, planets, nebulae, and the interplanetary and interstellar media from visible to gamma-ray regions.
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