Titan 403A launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office payload, an Onyx (Lacrosse-class) radar-imaging reconnaissance satellite, from Vandenberg Air Force Base; it was the last Titan IVA to fly from the West Coast.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 5 Titan 403A flights
- Date and time
- 24 October 1997, 02:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 403A
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-064
- Launches in 1997
- 66th of 89
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