LES-6, a Lincoln Laboratory experimental military UHF communications satellite for the USAF, launched on a Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 into near-geosynchronous orbit with secondary OV2-5 and OV5-2/OV5-4 radiation and environmental research payloads.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 392 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 11th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 1968, 07:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Astrophysics
- International designator
- 1968-081
- Launches in 1968
- 89th of 128
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