Final Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program (IDCSP) launch, deploying eight military comsats (OPS 9341–9348 / IDCSP 20–27) into near-geosynchronous orbit. Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-41 on 13 June 1968 completed the first U.S. operational military SATCOM constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 360 kg
- Flight
- 10th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 13 June 1968, 14:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1968-050
- Launches in 1968
- 55th of 128
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