Space Shuttle Columbia flew STS-28, a classified Department of Defense mission commanded by Brewster Shaw, deploying the USA-40 and USA-41 satellites believed to be second-generation Satellite Data System relay spacecraft, before landing at Edwards Air Force Base five days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 21.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 30th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 8 August 1989, 12:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39B, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1989-061
- Launches in 1989
- 62nd of 102
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