Applications Technology Satellite 5
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ATS-5 (Applications Technology Satellite-5) also known as ATS-E was a communications satellite launched into geosynchronous orbit on August 12, 1969. Built by Hughes Aircraft and launched by NASA, it was the final Hughes/NASA joint mission in the Applications Technology Satellites program.
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- Operator
- NASA
- Country of origin
- United States
- Followed by
- Applications Technology Satellite 6
- Mass
- 821
- Manufacturer
- Hughes Aircraft Company
- Image
- Applications Technology Satellite 5 (ATS 5).jpg
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- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 1969-08-12
- start point
- Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 36
- Commons category
- ATS-5
- powered by
- spacecraft solar array
- type of orbit
- geostationary orbit
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ATS-5 (Applications Technology Satellite-5) also known as ATS-E was a communications satellite launched into geosynchronous orbit on August 12, 1969. Built by Hughes Aircraft and launched by NASA, it was the final Hughes/NASA joint mission in the Applications Technology Satellites program.
==Objectives== The primary objective of ATS-5 was to evaluate gravity-gradient stabilization and demonstrate north-south station-keeping (NSSK) of a geosynchronous satellite. The experimental goals of ATS-5 included new imaging techniques for meteorological data retrieval, a demonstration of L band signals to precisely locate ships, tests of an electric ion thruster, evaluation of rain fade attenuation effects on RF signals, and C band communications tests for NASA and the National Science Foundation.
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