ATS-3
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ats-3-183-366672
title:
ATS-3
text:
Applications Technology Satellite 3, or ATS-3, was a long-lived American experimental geostationary weather and communications satellite, operated by NASA from 1967 to 2001. It was at one time reputed to be the oldest satellite still in operation. As of 1995, NASA referred to the ATS-3 as "The oldest active communications satellite by a wide margin." On November 10, 1967, ATS-3 took NASA's first color photo of the full-disk Earth, which was subsequently used on the cover of the first Whole Earth
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
American experimental satellite
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATS-3
date created:
2008-03-17T14:23:22Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T22:58:39Z
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