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Titan IIIC | TACSAT 1
TACSAT 1 (also TACOMSAT, Tactical Communications satellite) was the largest and most powerful communications satellite at the time when it was launched into synchronous orbit by a Titan-3C booster 9 February 1969, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. The experimental tactical communications satellite was designed and built by Hughes Aircraft Company, under the direction of the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Organization, for the Department of Defense.
Mission type: Communications · Orbit: Geosynchronous Orbit
Rocket: Titan IIIC · Provider: United States Air Force
Launch pad
Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA · View on map (opens in new tab)