Applications Technology Satellite 4
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ATS-4 (Applications Technology Satellite) also known as ATS-D was a communications satellite launched by NASA on August 10, 1968 from Cape Canaveral through an Atlas-Centaur (AC-17) rocket.
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- Operator
- NASA
- Country of origin
- United States
- Followed by
- Applications Technology Satellite 5
- Mass
- 391
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Aircraft Company
- Image
- ATS satellite prototype at SNASM.jpg
- Significant event
- atmospheric entry
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1968-08-10
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- time of object orbit decay
- 1968-10-17
- Commons category
- ATS-4
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ATS-4 (Applications Technology Satellite) also known as ATS-D was a communications satellite launched by NASA on August 10, 1968 from Cape Canaveral through an Atlas-Centaur (AC-17) rocket.
==Objectives== The objective of ATS-4 was to investigate the possibilities of a gravity gradient stabilization system (the method of stabilizing artificial satellites).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Applications Technology Satellite 4” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.