Dual DSCS II Defense Satellite Communications System spacecraft (DSCS-2 13/OPS 9441 and DSCS-2 14/OPS 9442) for U.S. military super-high-frequency links. Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral LC-40 delivered both to geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 33rd
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 21 November 1979, 02:09 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1979-098
- Launches in 1979
- 102nd of 110
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