Delta 181 (TVE/USA-30), a Strategic Defense Initiative experiment that deployed a sensor module and multiple test objects in low Earth orbit to study target tracking, discrimination, and plume phenomenology for ballistic-missile defense.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Delta 3910 flights
- Date and time
- 8 February 1988, 22:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3910
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-008
- Launches in 1988
- 9th of 121
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