Sunday, January 24, 1982

IDCSP 3

  1968-050A


The third and final IDCSP Initial Defense Communications Satellite Program cluster was launched by Titan IIIC on 1968 Jun 13. It had initially been planned as a replenishment launch but most of the previous IDCSP satellites were still operating well. The first satellite of the eight in the cluster was IDCSP 20,.


IDCSP 20 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1968 Jun 13  1403:50  Launch by Titan IIIC (3C-16)  CC LC41 
  T+0:02:01 SRM sep 
  T+0:02? St 1 burn 
  T+0:04:17 St 1 sep 
  T+0:04:41 Fairing 
  T+0:07:38 Titan Stage 2 MECO   
 1411:41  T+7:51 Transtage burn 1 14s  
 1411:55  T+8:05 MECO-1 148 x 176 km x 28.6 
 1509:32  T+1:05:42 Transtage burn 2   
 1514:35 T+1:10:45 MECO-2  250 x 33700 x 26.4 
 2005 T+6:02:52 MES-3 
 2008 T+6:04:38 MECO-3 
 2010? IDCSP sep 
   1335.7 33758 x 33841 x 0.2 

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