ATS-2 (Applications Technology Satellite 2 / ATS-A), a NASA medium-altitude technology satellite for communications, weather imaging, and gravity-gradient stabilization; Agena failed to reignite, leaving an unplanned elliptical orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 325 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 42nd
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 6 April 1967, 03:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1967-031
- Launches in 1967
- 33rd of 139
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