Final flight of the Commercial Titan III launched NASA's Mars Observer probe toward the Red Planet to study its surface, atmosphere, climate and magnetic field. Contact was lost on August 21, 1993, three days before its planned Mars orbit insertion.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Helio-N/A
- Heliocentric orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 4 Commercial Titan III flights
- Date and time
- 25 September 1992, 17:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Commercial Titan III
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 1992-063
- Launches in 1992
- 65th of 97
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