Final Titan 2 launches weather satellite
Posted: Sat, Oct 18, 2003, 7:28 PM ET (2328 GMT)
The last Titan 2 booster successfully launched a military weather satellite Saturday. The Titan 2 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 12:17 pm EDT (1617 GMT) and placed its payload into a polar orbit about seven minutes later. The Titan launched the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F16, or Block 5D-3, spacecraft, a satellite operated by NOAA and used by that agency and the Defense Department for weather prediction purposes. The launch has been planned for early 2001, but was delayed several times because of problems with the satellite and launch vehicle. The launch was the 13th and last launch of a Titan 2 from a batch of 14 former ICBMs refurbished into launch vehicles 15 years ago; there are no plans to use the 14th vehicle.
The last Titan 2 booster successfully launched a military weather satellite Saturday. The Titan 2 lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 12:17 pm EDT (1617 GMT) and placed its payload into a polar orbit about seven minutes later. The Titan launched the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) F16, or Block 5D-3, spacecraft, a satellite operated by NOAA and used by that agency and the Defense Department for weather prediction purposes. The launch has been planned for early 2001, but was delayed several times because of problems with the satellite and launch vehicle. The launch was the 13th and last launch of a Titan 2 from a batch of 14 former ICBMs refurbished into launch vehicles 15 years ago; there are no plans to use the 14th vehicle.| <<previous article | next article>> |
|
news in brief
|
|
|
|
news links
|
|
Tuesday, March 3
Self-repairing spacecraft could change future missions
ESA — 7:06 am ET (1206 GMT) UT Austin becomes first institution to help Space Force track threats
KXAN-TV — 7:01 am ET (1201 GMT) Blue Origin pays $11.5 million for Cocoa site formerly used for SpaceX ‘Starship race’
Talk of Titusville (FL) — 7:01 am ET (1201 GMT) Starlink to partner with Deutsche Telekom to launch satellite mobile service in Europe
CNBC — 6:57 am ET (1157 GMT) SpaceX Aims to Launch Upgraded Starlink Satellites in Mid-2027
Bloomberg News — 6:57 am ET (1157 GMT) |
