Atlas IIA (AC-109) launched USA-137, a classified National Reconnaissance Office satellite nicknamed Capricorn, from Cape Canaveral into a highly elliptical orbit; the first Atlas launch of 1998 and the family's 36th consecutive success.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 29 January 1998, 18:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-005
- Launches in 1998
- 6th of 82
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