ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite 1), a NASA experimental geostationary satellite for communications and weather imaging with a spin-scan cloud camera. Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-12 lofted it on 7 December 1966; returned the first full-disk Earth images from GEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 714 kg
- Flight
- 39th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 7 December 1966, 02:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1966-110
- Launches in 1966
- 121st of 131
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Object pages on Space Atlas: ATS 1
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