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Titan IIIC | IDCSP 20 to 27

IDCSP 20 to 27

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Launch Details

Date: 13 June 1968, 02:03 pm UTC

Rocket: Titan IIIC (Titan)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geosynchronous Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

The IDCSP (Initial Defense Communications satellite Program) provided the Pentagon with its first near-geosynchronous communications system and replaced the cancelled ADVENT project.