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NOAA 17
Launch SuccessfulLaunch Details
Date: 24 June 2002, 06:23 pm UTC
Rocket: Titan II SLV (Titan)
Provider: United States Air Force
Mission
Type: Earth Science
Orbit: Polar Orbit
Pad: Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
Mission Description
NOAA M carried weather imagers and microwave and infrared sounders, as well as a SARSAT search-and-rescue package. It had an on-orbit mass of 1475 kg.