Atlas SLV-3C Centaur | ATS 5
Launch Successful
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
Aug. 12, 1969, 11:01 a.m. - Aug. 12, 1969, 11:01 a.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
Aug. 12, 1969, 11:01 a.m. - Aug. 12, 1969, 11:01 a.m.
ATS-5, the last spacecraft in the Hughes/NASA ATS program, was launched August 12, 1969, in a near-perfect trajectory for insertion into synchronous orbit. Although injected successfully into orbit, the spacecraft's reverse spin (counterclockwise) prevented successful deployment of the 124 foot gravity gradient booms for the stabilization experiment. However nine of the other 13 experiments aboard the spacecraft returned useful data.
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Convair, previously Consolidated Vultee, was an American aircraft manufacturing company that later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Consolidated Aircraft and Vultee Aircraft. In 1953 it was purchased by General Dynamics, and operated as their Convair Division for most of its corporate history.
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