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LES 2

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 6 May 1965, 03:00 pm UTC

Rocket: Titan IIIA (Titan)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Elliptical Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 20, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Experimental communications satellite featuring a single X-band transponder and an 8-horn electronically switched antenna.