LES-1 (Lincoln Experimental Satellite 1), an MIT Lincoln Laboratory military communications experiment with an X-band transponder. Titan IIIA from Cape Canaveral LC-20 lofted it on 11 February 1965, but a miswired kick motor left it stuck in a near-circular medium-Earth orbit instead of the planned elliptical path.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 494 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 4 Titan IIIA flights
- Date and time
- 11 February 1965, 15:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 20, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1965-008
- Launches in 1965
- 9th of 124
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