Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
23:37:00
Sunday November 5, 1967
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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."
Geostationary Earth Orbit
1 Payload
365 kilograms
96th
Mission
9th
Mission of 1967
122nd
Orbital launch attempt