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Early geostationary communications and weather satellite, launched in 1966
The ATS-1.
Weather Satellite
NASA
1966-110A[1]
02608
17 years
HS-306
Hughes Aircraft
352 kilograms (776 lb )
December 7, 1966, 02:12:01 (1966-12-07UTC02:12:01Z ) UTC
Atlas SLV-3 Agena-D
Cape Canaveral LC-12
April 1985
Geocentric
GEO
42,152.0 kilometres (26,192.0 mi )
0.00013
35,782.0 kilometres (22,233.9 mi )
35,793.0 kilometres (22,240.7 mi )
3.6º
1,435.5 minutes
ATS-1 (Applications Technology Satellite 1 ), also designated ATS-B or Advanced Tech. Sat. 1 ,[2] geostationary satellite, launched in 1966.[3] 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 23,000 mi (37,000 km ) 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 .
It took one of the first pictures of the Earth's full-disk (the first from a geostationary orbit), on December 11, 1966.[4]
"For the first time," historians would note later, "rapid-imaging of nearly an entire hemisphere was possible. We could watch, fascinated, as storm systems developed and moved and were captured in a time series of images. Today such images are an indispensable part of weather analysis and forecasting." [5]
It was the first satellite to use frequency-division multiple access which accepted multiple independent signals and downlinked them in a single carrier. The spacecraft measured 56 inches (1,400 mm ) in diameter, 57 inches (1,400 mm ) high and weighed 750 lb (340 kg ).[3]
The ATS-1 satellite was used during the 1967 international television broadcast Our World
The ATS-1 would remain operational for more than 18 years, until April, 1985.[6]
Features [ edit ]
This satellite was cylindrical, with a diameter of 142 cm (56 in ) and a height of 135 cm (53 in ); an additional 270 cm (110 in ) in height was the engine cover. The surface was covered with solar panels , and the whole satellite was stabilized by rotation.
Instruments [ edit ]
A total of fifteen experiments were conducted during the mission:[7]
Gallery [ edit ]
ATS-1 exterior scheme
ATS-1 interior scheme
Concept artwork of the ATS-1 satellite
First full disk image of Earth from
geostationary orbit (December 11, 1966)
ATS-1 captured the first image of Earth and the moon together (December 11, 1966)
Section of an ATS-1 satellite image showing
Hurricane Monica ,(September 2, 1971)
References [ edit ]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to
ATS-1 .
^ a b "ATS" . Science Mission Directorate . NASA . 22 May 2016. Archived from the original on 10 June 2023. Retrieved 8 September 2023 .
^ "The 50th Anniversary of ATS-1" . NOAA National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) . 2016-12-06. Retrieved 2020-10-05 .
^ Stanley Q. Kidder and Thomas H. Vonder Haar, Satellite Meteorology: An Introduction (Gulf Professional Publishing, 1995) p7
^ Michel Capderou, Handbook of Satellite Orbits: From Kepler to GPS (Springer Science & Business, 2014) p279
^ Experiment Search Results . NASA NSSDC Master Catalog . Retrieved 2016-22-05.
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OPS 2394
OPS 7253
OPS 3179
Kosmos 105
Kosmos 106
OPS 1593
Luna 9
ESSA-1
OPS 1439
Kosmos 107
Kosmos 108
OPS 1184
OPS 3011
OPS 3031
Dipason
Kosmos 109
DS-K-40 No.2
Kosmos 110
ESSA-2
OPS 3488
GATV-5003
Gemini VIII
Kosmos 112
OPS 0879
OPS 0974
Kosmos 113
N-4 No.3
OPS 1117
Molniya-1 No.5
OV1-4
OV1-5
OPS 0340
Luna 10
OPS 1612
Surveyor SD-3
OAO-1
OPS 0910
Kosmos 115
OV3-1
Molniya 1-03
Kosmos 116
Kosmos 117
Kosmos 118
OPS 1950
OPS 6785
Nimbus 2
Zenit-4
GATV-5004
OPS 0082
OPS 1788
Kosmos 119
Explorer 32
Surveyor 1
Gemini IX-A
OPS 1577
OPS 1856
OGO-3
Kosmos 120
OV3-4
FTV-1351
Secor 6
ERS-16
OPS 9311
OPS 9312
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OPS 9314
OPS 9315
OPS 9316
OPS 9317
GGTS
Kosmos 121
OPS 1599
PAGEOS
Kosmos 122
AS-203
Proton 3
Kosmos 123
OPS 1850
OV1-7
OV1-8
Kosmos 124
GATV-5005
Gemini X
Kosmos 125
Kosmos 126
OPS 3014
Kosmos 127
OPS 1545
Lunar Orbiter 1
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OPS 6810
Pioneer 7
OPS 2366
FTV-1352
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ERS-15
Luna 11
IDSCP 1
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IDSCP 5
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IDSCP 7
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OPS 1686
OPS 6874
OGCh No.05L
Surveyor 2
OPS 1703
Ōsumi 1
OPS 4096
FTV-1583
Secor 8
OPS 2055
OPS 5345
Kosmos 129
Molniya 1-04
Kosmos 130
Luna 12
Surveyor SM-3
Intelsat II F-1
OV3-2
OPS 2070
OPS 5424
OPS 0855
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Lunar Orbiter 2
OPS 1866
GATV-5001A
Gemini XII
Kosmos 131
Strela-2 No.1
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Kosmos 133
OPS 1890
ATS-1
OV1-9
OV1-10
Kosmos 135
Soyuz 7K-OK No.1
OPS 8968
Biosatellite 1
Kosmos 136
Ōsumi 2
Kosmos 137
Luna 13
OPS 1584
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