Launched a DMSP Block 5D-2 military weather satellite (USA 73) from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit; notably the 500th Atlas rocket launch.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 28 November 1991, 13:23 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1991-082
- Launches in 1991
- 85th of 91
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