Atlas E launched the NOAA-D polar-orbiting weather satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base into sun-synchronous orbit; once operational it was redesignated NOAA-12, providing twice-daily global imaging for the US weather satellite fleet.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 14 May 1991, 15:52 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1991-032
- Launches in 1991
- 33rd of 91
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