DSP 3 (OPS 1570), a Phase I Defense Support Program infrared early-warning satellite for detecting ICBM and SLBM launches. Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-40 placed the ~900 kg TRW craft in GEO; it remained on station for over nine years.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 903 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 18th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 1 March 1972, 09:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1972-010
- Launches in 1972
- 11th of 113
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