Launched NASA's Combined Release and Radiation Effects Satellite (CRRES) on the first flight of the Atlas I, sending the Ball Aerospace-built spacecraft to geostationary transfer orbit to study plasmas and energetic particles in Earth's magnetosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 25 July 1990, 19:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1990-065
- Launches in 1990
- 68th of 121
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