Titan IVB with an Inertial Upper Stage launched a TRW-built Defense Support Program early-warning satellite (DSP-21) from Cape Canaveral, using the IUS to place the infrared missile-detection spacecraft into geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 5 Titan 402B IUS flights
- Date and time
- 6 August 2001, 07:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 402B IUS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2001-033
- Launches in 2001
- 33rd of 59
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