DROWNING IN ÆTHER

Satellites

Objectname Year Status
Transit 5B-5 1964 Ghost ALOUETTE-2 1965 Ghost LES-1 1965 Ghost SOLRAD-7B 1965 Ghost TIROS-10 1965 Ghost OV3-3 1966 Ghost LES-5 1967 Ghost OV5-3 (ERS-20) 1967 Ghost ISIS-1 1969 Ghost TIMATION-II 1969 Ghost SHINSEI-MS-F2 1971 Ghost AO-7 (OSCAR 7) 1974 Ghost NOAA-9 1984 Ghost FltSatCom F8 1989 Abandoned MILSTAR 1 1994 Abandoned NOAA-15 1998 Active Skynet 4E 1999 Abandoned UFO F7 (USA 127) 2003 Abandoned NOAA-18 2005 Active NOAA-19 2009 Active

OV3-3

Satellite type:Magnetosphere satellite
Year:1966
Status:Ghost
Orbit:LEO
Frequeny:258.4750 MHz
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Image of the OV3-3 satellite before launch
OV3-3 satellite before launch

The satellite Orbiting Vehicle 3-3 of the U.S. Air force was launched in 1966 and conducted radiation belt particle and fields experiments for 14 month. It was shutdown in 1969 after the tape recorder for data storage failed and the collection of the real-time data transmission got too expensive. 46 years after the shutdown it woke up again.