Titan 34D carried the classified Chalet 5 (USA-31) signals-intelligence satellite for the National Reconnaissance Office. A ruptured pressurization line kept the Transtage upper stage from completing its planned burn, stranding the satellite in a lower elliptical orbit instead of geosynchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 7 Titan 34D Transtage flights
- Date and time
- 2 September 1988, 12:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 34D Transtage
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1988-077
- Launches in 1988
- 81st of 121
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