Launched NOAA-11, a fourth-generation NOAA polar-orbiting weather satellite carrying AVHRR and TOVS instruments to monitor global cloud cover, sea-surface temperature, and atmospheric profiles, from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 24 September 1988, 10:02 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1988-089
- Launches in 1988
- 93rd of 121
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