DSP 5 (OPS 3165, IMEWS 5), a U.S. Air Force Defense Support Program infrared missile early-warning satellite. Titan IIIC (3C-29) from Cape Canaveral SLC-40 placed the craft in geostationary orbit to detect ballistic-missile launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 23rd
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 14 December 1975, 05:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1975-118
- Launches in 1975
- 124th of 132
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