Atlas E/OIS from Vandenberg lofted the U.S. Navy's Geosat radar-altimeter satellite to map the marine gravity field and later provide multi-year global sea-surface height measurements.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Atlas E/OIS flight
- Date and time
- 13 March 1985, 02:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas E/OIS
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1985-021
- Launches in 1985
- 21st of 125
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