Titan III(34)B from Vandenberg SLC-4W launched OPS 5805 (SDS-4 / Quasar 4), an NRO Satellite Data System military communications relay into a highly elliptical Molniya-type orbit for real-time reconnaissance data relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 800 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 11 Titan 34B flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 1980, 16:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 34B
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 4W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1980-100
- Launches in 1980
- 103rd of 108
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