FLTSATCOM 5, a U.S. Navy Fleet Satellite Communications spacecraft for secure UHF military links. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36A reached GEO, but the payload fairing collapsed in ascent, damaging solar arrays and antennas and leaving the satellite of only limited utility.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 6 August 1981, 08:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-073
- Launches in 1981
- 75th of 126
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