Carried the DMSP-5D2 F12 (USA 106) military weather satellite to polar orbit from Vandenberg's SLC-3W aboard an Atlas E, notable as the 500th Atlas rocket launch.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 1994, 17:38 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1994-057
- Launches in 1994
- 60th of 93
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