Launched USA 136 (Raven 3), a classified signals-intelligence satellite for the US National Reconnaissance Office, from Cape Canaveral aboard a Titan IV(401)A/Centaur into a high-altitude transfer orbit en route to geosynchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 9 Titan 401A Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 8 November 1997, 02:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 401A Centaur
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1997-068
- Launches in 1997
- 71st of 89
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