ATS-3 (Applications Technology Satellite 3), a NASA experimental geostationary weather and communications satellite that took the first full-disk true-color image of Earth. Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D from Cape Canaveral LC-12 lofted it on 5 November 1967; it remained useful for decades.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 714 kg
- Flight
- 48th
- of 48 Atlas SLV-3 Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 5 November 1967, 23:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1967-111
- Launches in 1967
- 122nd of 139
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