ATS 5

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General

Designation	04068 / 69069A
Launch date	12 Aug 1969
Country of origin	United States
Mission	Telecommunications experimentation
Geostationary orbit
Launch vehicle
Launch site	Cape Canaveral

Although injected successfully into orbit, the spacecraft's reverse spin (counterclockwise) prevented successful deployment of the 124 foot gravity gradient booms for the stabilization experiment. However nine of the other 13 experiments aboard the spacecraft returned useful data. Provided data on auroran phenomenons and propagation in ionosphere.

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End of life

Out of service

Mar 1984

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