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1980 · United States Air Force

FLTSATCOM 4

successAtlas SLV-3D Centaur | FLTSATCOM 4

FLTSATCOM satellite for US Navy, Air Force and presidential communications

Overview

Date / time: October 31, 1980 at 03:54 AM UTC
Outcome: success
Launch site: Launch Complex 36A
Mission: FLTSATCOM 4
Mission type: Government/Top Secret
Orbit achieved: Geostationary Orbit

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Payloads deployed · 1

OPS 6394 (FLTSATCOM 4)