FLTSATCOM 3 (OPS 6293), a U.S. Navy Fleet Satellite Communications spacecraft, launched on an Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR from Cape Canaveral LC-36A into geostationary orbit for secure military UHF communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 18 January 1980, 01:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1980-004
- Launches in 1980
- 4th of 108
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