NTS-1 (P73-3 / OPS 7518 / Timation 3), NRL’s Navigation Technology Satellite with rubidium-vapor clocks for the NAVSTAR GPS program. Maiden Atlas F/PTS flight from Vandenberg SLC-3W placed the craft in medium Earth orbit on 14 July 1974.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 513 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Atlas F/PTS flight
- Date and time
- 14 July 1974, 05:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F/PTS
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1974-054
- Launches in 1974
- 59th of 113
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