1967 · United States Air Force
IDCSP 16 to 19
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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
- July 1, 1967 at 01:15 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41
- Mission
- IDCSP 16 to 19
- Mission type
- Communications
- Orbit achieved
- Geosynchronous Orbit