First U.S. Navy Ocean Surveillance Satellite (NOSS/White Cloud) cluster: MSD dispenser plus NOSS 1A/1B/1C ELINT ocean-surveillance spacecraft. Atlas F MSD from Vandenberg SLC-3W placed the three-satellite constellation in LEO for passive naval SIGINT and ship tracking.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Atlas F MSD flights
- Date and time
- 30 April 1976, 19:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F MSD
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-038
- Launches in 1976
- 39th of 131
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