The first Titan IVB, an upgraded configuration with more powerful solid rocket motors, launched a classified Defense Support Program missile-warning satellite from Cape Canaveral into geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.4 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 5 Titan 402B IUS flights
- Date and time
- 23 February 1997, 20:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 402B IUS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-008
- Launches in 1997
- 9th of 89
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