1972 · United States Air Force
Copernicus
successAtlas SLV-3C Centaur | Copernicus
Third Orbiting Astronomical Observatory satellite, equipped with an UV telescope and three X-ray telescopes.
Overview
- Date / time
- August 21, 1972 at 10:28 AM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B
- Mission
- Copernicus
- Mission type
- Astrophysics
- Orbit achieved
- Low Earth Orbit