Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-40 failed carrying DSCS II F-9 and F-10 (OPS 9439/9440) military communications satellites; a second-stage hydraulic-pump failure forced range-safety destruction about eight minutes after liftoff.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 28th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 25 March 1978, 18:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- Launches in 1978
- 31st of 128