FLTSATCOM 7 (USA-20), a U.S. Navy Block 2 Fleet Satellite Communications spacecraft, launched on an Atlas G Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B into GEO. It provided secure UHF/SHF links for Navy, Air Force, and National Command Authority users and carried an experimental EHF package as a Milstar testbed.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 Atlas G Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 5 December 1986, 02:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas G Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1986-096
- Launches in 1986
- 103rd of 110
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