HEAO 1 (High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1), NASA’s first large X-ray and gamma-ray sky survey satellite, launched on an Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B into LEO to map celestial high-energy sources from 150 eV to 10 MeV.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 12 August 1977, 06:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1977-075
- Launches in 1977
- 78th of 130
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