ATS-5 (Applications Technology Satellite 5), a NASA geosynchronous technology-demonstration satellite for communications and related experiments. Atlas SLV-3 Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36A on 12 August 1969.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 845 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 1969, 11:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1969-069
- Launches in 1969
- 80th of 125
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