GEOS-3 (Geodynamics Experimental Ocean Satellite), NASA's third geodetic mission launched on the maiden Delta 1410 from Vandenberg with a radar altimeter for ocean-surface mapping and gravity studies.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 340 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Delta 1410 flight
- Date and time
- 9 April 1975, 23:58 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 1410
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1975-027
- Launches in 1975
- 29th of 132
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