1966 · United States Air Force
IDCSP 1 to 7
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The IDCSP (Initial Defense Communications satellite Program) provided the Pentagon with its first near-geosynchronous communications system and replaced the cancelled ADVENT project.
Overview
- Date / time
- June 16, 1966 at 02:00 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41
- Mission
- IDCSP 1 to 7
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geosynchronous Orbit