Scout G-1 from Vandenberg SLC-5 launched Magsat (AEM-3/Explorer 61), a joint NASA/USGS magnetic-field mapping satellite with vector and scalar magnetometers; first flight of the Scout G-1 configuration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 181 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 17 Scout G-1 flights
- Date and time
- 30 October 1979, 14:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout G-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1979-094
- Launches in 1979
- 98th of 110
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