Status
Success
Rocket
Vehicles
Mission Details
STS-27R (USA-34)
The Space Shuttle Atlantis (OV-104), at the time the youngest in NASA's shuttle fleet, made its third flight on a classified mission for the United States Department of Defense (DoD). It deployed a single satellite, USA-34. NASA archival information has identified USA-34 as Lacrosse 1, a side-looking radar, all-weather surveillance satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 14,500.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit
Location
LC-39B, Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA
Stats
1988
111th orbital launch attempt
Space Shuttle
27th mission
2nd mission of 1988
26th successful mission
2nd consecutive successful mission