HILAT (P83-1), a U.S. Air Force ionospheric research satellite, launched on a Scout from Vandenberg into a high-inclination low Earth orbit to study high-latitude auroral scintillation and plasma processes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 113 kg
- Flight
- 15th
- of 15 Scout D-1 flights
- Date and time
- 27 June 1983, 15:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout D-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1983-063
- Launches in 1983
- 64th of 129
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