Atlas E launched from Vandenberg AFB carrying NOAA-13 weather satellite and the classified DMSP-5D2 F-12 military meteorological satellite. It was the 500th Atlas launch; NOAA-13 suffered a power system failure and was declared lost just 12 days later.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 9 August 1993, 10:02 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1993-050
- Launches in 1993
- 52nd of 83
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