Atlas F from Vandenberg SLC-3W launched NOAA 6 (NOAA-A), the second TIROS-N-class polar-orbiting weather satellite with AVHRR imaging and TOVS atmospheric sounding for NOAA operational meteorology.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 9 SM-65F Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 27 June 1979, 15:51 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65F Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-057
- Launches in 1979
- 58th of 110
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