Status
Success
ATS-3
Launch Time
Sun Nov 05, 1967 23:37 UTC
Sun Nov 05, 1967 23:37 UTC
Rocket
Mission Details
ATS-3
Applications Technology Satellite 3, or ATS-3, was a long-lived American experimental geostationary weather and communications satellite, operated by NASA from 1967 to 2001. It was at one time reputed to be the oldest satellite still in operation. As of 1995, NASA referred to the ATS-3 as "The oldest active communications satellite by a wide margin."
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 365.0 kg
Geostationary Earth Orbit
Location
LC-12, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA
Stats
1967
122nd orbital launch attempt
Atlas-Agena
96th mission
9th mission of 1967
77th successful mission
6th consecutive successful mission