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ATS 2
Atlas SLV-3 Agena D · Earth Science
1967Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral
Mission
ATS 2 (Applications Technology Satellite) was a medium altitude, gravity-gradient-stabilized spacecraft designed to test new concepts in spacecraft design, propulsion, and stabilization, take high-quality cloudcover pictures, provide in situ measurements of the aerospace environment, and test improved communication systems.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- USAF
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3 Agena D
- Orbit
- MEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 12
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2