Feb 2 1988
From The Space Library
A DMSP F-9 meteorological observation satellite was successfully launched at 9:53 p.m. aboard an Atlas-E rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base Space Launch Complex-3 in California. The 1,650-pound Department of Defense (DoD) satellite was placed in a near-polar orbit. (W Times, Feb 4/88; Aeronautics and Space Report of the President: 1988, 171)
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