Second IDCSP (Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program) cluster of military near-geosynchronous communications satellites for the U.S. Air Force. Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-41 failed on 26 August 1966 when the payload fairing broke up about 78 seconds after launch, destroying all eight satellites.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 5th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 26 August 1966, 13:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1966
- 86th of 131