Space Shuttle Discovery STS-51-C, the first dedicated Department of Defense Shuttle mission, deployed the classified Magnum/Orion 1 (USA-8) SIGINT satellite toward GEO via an Inertial Upper Stage. Five-astronaut crew; three-day flight.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 26.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 15th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 24 January 1985, 19:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1985-010
- Launches in 1985
- 10th of 125
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