Scout D-1 from Wallops Island LA-3A launched SAGE (AEM-2, Explorer 60), a NASA earth-science satellite measuring stratospheric aerosols and ozone with a limb-scanning radiometer until reentry in 1989; last Scout D-1 flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 149 kg
- Flight
- 13th
- of 15 Scout D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 18 February 1979, 16:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout D-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Launch Area 3A, Wallops Flight Facility, Virginia, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-013
- Launches in 1979
- 14th of 110
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