HEAO-3 (HEAO-C), NASA’s third High Energy Astronomy Observatory, launched on an Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B into LEO; carried a cryogenic germanium gamma-ray spectrometer and cosmic-ray experiments that operated until 1981.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 20 September 1979, 05:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1979-082
- Launches in 1979
- 85th of 110
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