Chalet 8 (Vortex 8, OPS 9454 / Mission 7508), the first Chalet/Vortex geosynchronous SIGINT satellite succeeding Canyon, launched on a Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-40 for NRO/NSA communications intelligence.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 29th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1978, 19:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-058
- Launches in 1978
- 60th of 128
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