Space Shuttle Discovery's ninth flight, a classified Department of Defense mission that deployed the Magnum/Orion signals-intelligence satellite toward geosynchronous orbit; it was the third night launch of the shuttle program.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 26.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 32nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 23 November 1989, 00:23 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
- 1989-090
- Launches in 1989
- 91st of 102
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