Launched the NOAA-15 (NOAA-K) polar-orbiting weather satellite from Vandenberg into sun-synchronous orbit. It was the first NOAA satellite to carry the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.2 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 13 Titan II SLV flights
- Date and time
- 13 May 1998, 15:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan II SLV
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1998-030
- Launches in 1998
- 31st of 82
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