Space Shuttle Atlantis flew STS-36, a classified Department of Defense mission believed to have deployed a Misty stealth reconnaissance satellite, reaching the highest orbital inclination (62 degrees) of any human spaceflight to that point via a unique 'dog-leg' launch trajectory.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 34.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 34th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 1990, 07:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1990-019
- Launches in 1990
- 20th of 121
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