STS-38, the seventh Department of Defense shuttle mission, flew Atlantis with a classified payload, deploying the USA-67 signals-intelligence satellite toward geostationary transfer orbit. Poor weather diverted the landing to Kennedy Space Center, Atlantis's first KSC touchdown.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 26.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 37th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 15 November 1990, 23:48 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
- 1990-097
- Launches in 1990
- 102nd of 121
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