Atlas F/OIS from Vandenberg SLC-3W launched Solwind (P78-1), a U.S. Air Force solar-physics satellite with white-light coronagraph and other instruments; destroyed on 13 September 1985 by an ASM-135 ASAT missile from an F-15.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Atlas F/OIS flight
- Date and time
- 24 February 1979, 08:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas F/OIS
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 1979-017
- Launches in 1979
- 18th of 110
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