Titan IV(405)A launched Quasar (USA-125), the fourth second-generation Satellite Data System relay satellite, into a highly elliptical Molniya-type orbit from Cape Canaveral to relay US reconnaissance data.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 9.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Titan 405A flights
- Date and time
- 3 July 1996, 00:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Titan 405A
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-038
- Launches in 1996
- 42nd of 77
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