Titan II launched NOAA-17 (NOAA-M), a polar-orbiting weather satellite carrying imaging and sounding instruments plus a SARSAT search-and-rescue payload, into a sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 13 Titan II SLV flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 2002, 18:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II SLV
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2002-032
- Launches in 2002
- 32nd of 65
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