STS-44: Space Shuttle Atlantis deployed the DSP-16 missile-early-warning satellite on an Inertial Upper Stage. The mission was cut short and landed early after one of the orbiter's inertial measurement units failed on orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 24.6 T
- Flight
- 44th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 24 November 1991, 23:44 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
- 1991-080
- Launches in 1991
- 83rd of 91
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