OPS 4029 (Vortex 10 / Chalet), a U.S. National Reconnaissance Office signals-intelligence satellite. Titan III(23)C from Cape Canaveral LC-40 lofted the craft into a high Earth orbit for interception of foreign communications and electronic emissions.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- MEO
- Medium Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 35th
- of 36 Titan IIIC flights
- Date and time
- 31 October 1981, 09:22 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1981-107
- Launches in 1981
- 109th of 126
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