Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
13:19:00
Wednesday June 7, 2000
TSX 5 (Tri-Service eXperiments 5) it carried a compact environmental anomaly sensor (CEASE) to probe the near-spacecraft environment. Also on board were the STRV-2 and MWIR instruments: the former to experiment with laser communications between spacecraft and the latter to provide infrared images of flying aircraft.
1 Payload
250 kilograms
Agency
NorthropPrice
$40.00 million
Rocket
Height: 17.6m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 443 kg
Liftoff Thrust
561 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 1.15m
Height: 2.13m
Stages
4
29th
Mission
1st
Mission of 2000
32nd
Orbital launch attempt