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Atlas SLV-3 Agena D | ATS 2

ATS 2

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Launch Details

Date: 6 Apr 1967, 03:23 am UTC

Rocket: Atlas SLV-3 Agena D (Atlas)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Earth Science

Orbit: Medium Earth Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 12, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

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.