Atlas E/Star-37S from Vandenberg SLC-3W launched NOAA-10 (NOAA-G), a polar-orbiting meteorological satellite for NOAA with AVHRR imaging and sounders for global weather observation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 17 September 1986, 15:52 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1986-073
- Launches in 1986
- 78th of 110
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