Triad 3 (TIP 3), a U.S. Navy Transit Improvement Program navigation technology satellite (DISCOS drag-free prototype for the NOVA generation), launched on a Scout D-1 from Vandenberg SLC-5 into LEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 166 kg
- Flight
- 10th
- of 15 Scout D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 1 September 1976, 21:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout D-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Navigation
- International designator
- 1976-089
- Launches in 1976
- 90th of 131
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