Final Atlas E/F flight, launching the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program's DMSP-5D2 F13 weather satellite from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit, ending the veteran booster's three-decade career.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 15 SM-65E Atlas flights
- Date and time
- 24 March 1995, 14:05 UTC
- Rocket
- SM-65E Atlas
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1995-015
- Launches in 1995
- 17th of 80
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