Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-40 launched DSP Flight 8 (OPS 7484), a U.S. Air Force Defense Support Program early-warning satellite into geosynchronous orbit for infrared missile-launch detection; first MOS/PIM-series DSP.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 31st
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1979, 13:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-053
- Launches in 1979
- 54th of 110
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