Space Shuttle Atlantis on STS-51-J, its maiden flight, deployed dual DSCS-III military communications satellites (USA-11 and USA-12) for the U.S. Department of Defense via an Inertial Upper Stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 24.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 21st
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 3 October 1985, 15:15 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
- 1985-092
- Launches in 1985
- 95th of 125
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