Launched USA 137, a classified U.S. National Reconnaissance Office satellite codenamed Capricorn, believed to be a technology-demonstration platform including a prototype COBRA BRASS infrared missile-warning sensor, into geosynchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 9 October 1998, 22:50 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-057
- Launches in 1998
- 62nd of 82
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