1966 · United States Air Force
IDCSP 8 to 14
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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
- August 26, 1966 at 01:59 PM UTC
- Outcome
- failure
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41
- Mission
- IDCSP 8 to 14
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geosynchronous Orbit