Titan III(23)C from Cape Canaveral LC-40 launched DSP Flight 9 (OPS 7350), a U.S. Air Force Defense Support Program infrared early-warning satellite to geostationary orbit for missile-launch detection; operated into the early 1990s.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 34th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1981, 19:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-025
- Launches in 1981
- 26th of 126
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