In the final flight ever of the Titan/Centaur combination, a Titan IVB launched the classified Advanced Orion 5 (USA 171) signals-intelligence satellite for the NRO into geostationary orbit, closing out the Titan IV program's decade of use of the Centaur upper stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Titan IVB/Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 2003, 04:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IVB/Centaur
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2003-041
- Launches in 2003
- 41st of 63
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