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NOAA 6
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 27 June 1979, 03:51 pm UTC
Rocket: Atlas F (Atlas)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Sun-Synchronous Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
Third generation LEO meteorological satellite