OPS-6431 (NOSS 5 / Parcae 5), a US Navy Naval Ocean Surveillance System triad on the maiden Atlas H flight from Vandenberg, with MSD dispenser and LIPS 2. Three co-orbiting SIGINT satellites triangulated naval radar emissions for ship tracking.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 5 Atlas H flights
- Date and time
- 9 February 1983, 13:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas H
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-008
- Launches in 1983
- 9th of 129
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