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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.[citation needed]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.