Delta Star, a Strategic Defense Initiative Organization satellite carrying UV, visible, and infrared sensors to track missile plumes and space objects, reached a roughly 360 km orbit at 48 degrees inclination from Cape Canaveral, operating until its deactivation in December 1989.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.6 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Delta 3920-8 flight
- Date and time
- 24 March 1989, 21:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3920-8
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-026
- Launches in 1989
- 26th of 102
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