MACSAT 1 and MACSAT 2, twin 68 kg DARPA-sponsored UHF store-and-forward communications microsatellites demonstrating tactical voice, data, fax and video relay; one was later used to relay messages during Operation Desert Storm.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 140 kg
- Flight
- 12th
- of 17 Scout G-1 flights
- Date and time
- 9 May 1990, 17:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Scout G-1
- Builder
- Vought
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 5, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-043
- Launches in 1990
- 45th of 121
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