A refurbished Titan II ICBM launched NOAA-16, an Advanced TIROS-N polar-orbiting weather satellite, from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit; it was the first NOAA mission to fly on the Titan 23G variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 13 Titan II SLV flights
- Date and time
- 21 September 2000, 10:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II SLV
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2000-055
- Launches in 2000
- 57th of 85
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