Applications Technology Satellite 1
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ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite 1), also designated ATS-B or Advanced Tech. Sat. 1, was an experimental geostationary satellite, launched in 1966, and part of the Applications Technology Satellites Program. Though intended as a communications satellite rather than as a weather satellite, it carried the Spin Scan Cloud Camera developed by Verner E. Suomi and Robert Parent at the University of Wisconsin.
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- Instance of
- weather satellite
- Operator
- NASA
- Country of origin
- United States
- Followed by
- Applications Technology Satellite 2
- Diameter
- 142.2
- Mass
- 351.5
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Aircraft Company
- Image
- Applications Technology Satellite 1 (ATS 1).jpg
- Height
- 144.8
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- Commons category
- ATS-1
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1966-12-07
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 12
- type of orbit
- geostationary orbit
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
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ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite 1), also designated ATS-B or Advanced Tech. Sat. 1, was an experimental geostationary satellite, launched in 1966, and part of the Applications Technology Satellites Program. Though intended as a communications satellite rather than as a weather satellite, it carried the Spin Scan Cloud Camera developed by Verner E. Suomi and Robert Parent at the University of Wisconsin.
After entering an orbit at above Earth, initially in orbit over Ecuador, it transmitted weather images from the Western Hemisphere, as well as other data, to ground stations, including well as video feeds for television broadcasting.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Applications Technology Satellite 1” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.