OPS-6432 (NOSS 6 / Parcae 6), a US Navy Naval Ocean Surveillance System triad deployed from Vandenberg on Atlas H with an MSD dispenser. Three co-orbiting SIGINT satellites triangulated naval radar emissions for ship tracking and identification.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 5 Atlas H flights
- Date and time
- 9 June 1983, 23:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas H
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1983-056
- Launches in 1983
- 57th of 129
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