ASTEX (P71-2), a USAF Space Test Program Advanced Space Technology Experiment bus carrying advanced-development payloads. Thorad SLV-2G Agena-D from Vandenberg SLC-1W placed the ~1.5 t craft in LEO for technology demonstration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 29th
- of 30 Thorad SLV-2G Agena D flights
- Date and time
- 17 October 1971, 13:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Thorad SLV-2G Agena D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 1W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Test Flight
- International designator
- 1971-089
- Launches in 1971
- 98th of 133
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