RTS-1 1 (MIDAS-RTS / AFP-461 F-1), a U.S. Air Force infrared ballistic-missile early-warning satellite launched on an Atlas-Agena D from Vandenberg with SECOR 6 and ORS 2 piggybacks; Agena’s second burn failed, stranding it in an unusable elliptical orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 25th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 9 June 1966, 20:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1966-051
- Launches in 1966
- 58th of 131
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