NOAA-B, a NOAA polar-orbiting weather satellite, launched on an Atlas E/F from Vandenberg SLC-3W but left in a useless orbit after first-stage underperformance and premature upper-stage separation, ending the mission as a launch failure.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 9 SM-65F Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 29 May 1980, 10:53 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65F Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1980-043
- Launches in 1980
- 44th of 108
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