Atlas G Centaur launched FLTSATCOM F-8, the final satellite in the US Navy's UHF FLTSATCOM constellation providing worldwide voice and teletype relay for ships, aircraft, and field units. The mission had been delayed two years after a 1987 pad accident damaged the Centaur stage, and marked NASA's last Atlas/Centaur launch operation at Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Atlas G Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 25 September 1989, 08:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas G Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1989-077
- Launches in 1989
- 78th of 102
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