Saturday, June 20, 1998

IDCSP 1

  1966-053B


The first cluster of 7 IDCSP satellites was launched by Titan IIIC from Cape Kennedy on 1966 Jun 16. The Titan IIIC's Transtage made two burns to reach subsynchronous circular orbit and dispensed the eight payloads. The Transtage increased velocity by 1.5m/s between each ejection and the ejection process lasted 6 min.


IDCSP 1 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1966 Jun 16  1400:00 Launch by Titan IIIC  CK LC41 
  T+1:50 Core MES 
  T+2:03 Solids sep; 45 km?  
  T+3:30 Fairing 130 km 
  T+4:29 St 1 sep 
  T+4:29 St 2 MES 
  T+7:43 St 2 MECO 
  T+7:53 St 2 sep 
  T+7:56? Transtage MES 
 1412? T+12:12? Transtage MECO-1  165 x 189 x 28.6 

 

1508? Transtage MES2 
 1509? Transtage MECO-2  590.7 167 x 33700 x 26.4  
 2003:12 T+6:03:12 Transtage MES-3 1:42 
 2004:54 Transtage MECO-3 
 2006:48  T+6:06:48 Dispense GGTS 
 2007:40? Dispense first IDCSP satellite 
 2009:48  Dispense last satellite 

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