Carried NASA's QuikSCAT ocean-wind scatterometer satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base. Built as a quick-turnaround replacement for the prematurely failed NSCAT instrument, QuikSCAT measured near-surface wind speed and direction over the world's oceans.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- PO
- Polar orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 970 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 13 Titan II SLV flights
- Date and time
- 20 June 1999, 02:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II SLV
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-034
- Launches in 1999
- 35th of 78
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