Titan IVB/Centaur failure: a Centaur guidance software error caused uncontrolled tumbling that stranded the Milstar-2 F1 (DFS-3) military communications satellite in a useless orbit; it was raised as high as fuel allowed and shut down after 10 days.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 7 Titan IVB/Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 30 April 1999, 16:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IVB/Centaur
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1999-023
- Launches in 1999
- 24th of 78
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