May 28 1979
From The Space Library
The U.S. Air Force launched a DOD surveillance spacecraft from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 11:30 a.m. PDT on a Titan IIIB-Agena into an orbit with 323-kilometer apogee; 126-kilometer perigee, 89-minute period, and 96.4° inclination. DOD made no announcement, but press reports said that the launch was probably a low-resolution search-and-find mission; this type of system would remain in orbit about 2.5 months. (NASA wkly SSR, May 24-30; DISD, May 31/79, 149; Av Wk, June 11179, 23)
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