Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B launched HEAO-2, renamed Einstein Observatory after launch—NASA’s first fully imaging space X-ray telescope, with arcsecond resolution for cosmic X-ray sources.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 13 November 1978, 05:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1978-103
- Launches in 1978
- 107th of 128
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