Titan IIIC/Transtage from Cape Canaveral LC-40 launched Vortex 9 (OPS 1948/Mission 7509), an NRO near-geosynchronous COMINT/SIGINT satellite with a large dish antenna for intercepting communications and missile telemetry.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 32nd
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 1 October 1979, 11:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-086
- Launches in 1979
- 89th of 110
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