Titan II SLV launched DMSP F-14, a Defense Meteorological Satellite Program spacecraft, into a sun-synchronous orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base. It was the last of the Block 5D-2 series of military weather satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 13 Titan II SLV flights
- Date and time
- 4 April 1997, 16:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II SLV
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-012
- Launches in 1997
- 13th of 89
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