Titan IV(402)B/IUS failure: tape wrapped too tightly around a wiring harness prevented the Inertial Upper Stage's two segments from fully separating, stranding the DSP-19 missile-warning satellite in a useless orbit, an estimated $250 million loss.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 5 Titan 402B IUS flights
- Date and time
- 9 April 1999, 17:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 402B IUS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1999-017
- Launches in 1999
- 17th of 78
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