Second Commercial Titan III flight carried Intelsat 603, but a wiring error kept the second stage from separating, stranding the satellite in a useless low orbit. Space Shuttle Endeavour's STS-49 crew later captured it, attached a new kick motor, and boosted it to its intended geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 4 Commercial Titan III flights
- Date and time
- 14 March 1990, 11:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Commercial Titan III
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-021
- Launches in 1990
- 22nd of 121
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