Titan IVB with an Inertial Upper Stage launched a Defense Support Program missile-warning satellite (DSP-20/USA-149) from Cape Canaveral into geosynchronous orbit, fulfilling the mission lost when DSP-19's IUS stage failed in 1999.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 5 Titan 402B IUS flights
- Date and time
- 8 May 2000, 16:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 402B IUS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2000-024
- Launches in 2000
- 26th of 85
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