NOAA-8 (NOAA-E), the first Advanced TIROS-N polar-orbiting weather satellite, launched on an Atlas-E/Star-37S-ISS from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit with AVHRR, HIRS, and SARSAT instruments; the spacecraft failed in June 1984.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 28 March 1983, 15:52 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1983-022
- Launches in 1983
- 23rd of 129
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