Atlas F/Agena D from Vandenberg SLC-3W launched Seasat 1 (Seasat A), NASA’s first dedicated ocean-observation satellite with synthetic aperture radar, altimeter, and scatterometer; electrical failure ended the mission after ~105 days.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Atlas F/Agena D flight
- Date and time
- 27 June 1978, 01:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F/Agena D
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1978-064
- Launches in 1978
- 66th of 128
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