DSP Flight 4 (IMEWS-4 / OPS 6157), a US Air Force Defense Support Program infrared missile early-warning satellite. Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 placed the craft in geosynchronous orbit to detect ballistic-missile launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 966 kg
- Flight
- 19th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 12 June 1973, 07:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1973-040
- Launches in 1973
- 43rd of 116
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