Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
19:10:17
Thursday April 5, 1990
The Pegsat spacecraft was the first to be launched using the privately-developed winged Pegasus rocket booster released from an aircraft in flight.
1 Payload
178 kilograms
SECS (Special Experimental Communication System), also known as TERCEL and GLOMR 2, was a digital store and forward communications spacecraft built by the US Navy for a classified mission.
1 Payload
68 kilograms
1st
Mission
1st
Mission of 1990
30th
Orbital launch attempt