Jun 10 1979
From The Space Library
DOD launched a "classified payload" at 9:38 a.m. local time from Cape Canaveral on a Titan IIIC into a geosynchronous orbit with 36,261-kilometer apogee, 35,802-kilometer perigee, 1,448.6-minute period, and 2.0° inclination. The U.S. Air Force had no comment on press speculation about the launch. The New York Times said "such satellites are used to monitor Russian and Chinese launches [and to warn] American officials if a missile is launched from a submarine at sea." Aviation Week & Space Technology said that the payload had "orbital characteristics of previously launched early warning satellites." (NASA wkly SSR, June 7-13; NY Times, June 11/79, B-6; W Post, June 11/79, A-9; Today, June 11/79, 1A, 8A; Av Wk, June 18/79, 13)
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