First Satellite Data System (SDS-1 / Quasar 1, OPS 7837) spacecraft for the NRO, a military data-relay satellite placed in a Molniya-type elliptical orbit from Vandenberg to support polar communications and reconnaissance downlinks.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 11 Titan 34B flights
- Date and time
- 2 June 1976, 20:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 34B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1976-050
- Launches in 1976
- 51st of 131
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