ATS-6 (Applications Technology Satellite 6, pre-launch ATS-F), NASA’s pioneering GEO experimental communications and education satellite with a 9 m deployable antenna. Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-40 placed it directly into geostationary orbit for educational TV and technology demos.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 30 May 1974, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1974-039
- Launches in 1974
- 42nd of 113
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