Space Shuttle Discovery flew STS-53, the tenth and final dedicated Department of Defense shuttle mission, deploying the classified USA-89 payload (DoD-1), the third Satellite Data System-2 military communications relay satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 21.4 T
- Flight
- 52nd
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 2 December 1992, 13:24 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
- 1992-086
- Launches in 1992
- 88th of 97
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