Atlas E/F with Star-37S-ISS from Vandenberg SLC-3W lofted NOAA-7 (NOAA-C), a U.S. polar Sun-synchronous weather satellite carrying AVHRR and TOVS instruments for operational meteorological imaging and atmospheric sounding.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 9 SM-65F Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 23 June 1981, 10:52 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65F Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1981-059
- Launches in 1981
- 61st of 126
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