Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
15:37:00
Monday June 27, 1983
The HILAT (High Latitude Reseach Satellite) spacecraft (also known as P83-1) was the refurbished Transit-O 16 spacecraft, which carried experiments intended to provide remote-sensing and in situ measurements of physical quantities likely to provide insight into the dynamics of plasma-density irregularity formation in the high-latitude ionosphere.
Low Earth Orbit
1 Payload
248 kilograms
84th
Mission
1st
Mission of 1983
64th
Orbital launch attempt