A Titan II SLV, the final flight of the refurbished Titan II ICBM as a satellite launcher, placed the US Air Force's DMSP F-15 weather satellite into a sun-synchronous polar orbit, closing the vehicle's career with a perfect 100% success record.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 13 Titan II SLV flights
- Date and time
- 12 December 1999, 17:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II SLV
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1999-067
- Launches in 1999
- 72nd of 78
See it in orbit
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