Atlas H from Vandenberg deployed the Naval Ocean Surveillance System trio USA-16/17/18 (NOSS-8 / Parcae) plus MSD 8 (USA-15) for U.S. Navy SIGINT ocean surveillance from low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 5 Atlas H flights
- Date and time
- 9 February 1986, 10:06 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas H
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1986-014
- Launches in 1986
- 15th of 110
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