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RTS-1 1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 9 June 1966, 08:15 pm UTC
Rocket: Atlas SLV-3 Agena D (Atlas)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit: Polar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
The RTS-1 (Research Test Series 1), also known as MIDAS-RTS-1 or AFP-461, was an extension to the MIDAS program of early warning satellites.