An Atlas E launched NOAA-14 (NOAA-K), a 1,712 kg polar-orbiting weather satellite, from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It joined NOAA's operational meteorological constellation, delivering imagery and atmospheric sounding data from a sun-synchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.7 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 30 December 1994, 10:02 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1994-089
- Launches in 1994
- 93rd of 93
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