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Jumpseat 3

Success US Air Force, Titan 33B

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Signal intelligence satellite operating from highly elliptic Molniya-type orbits.

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to orbit0 km1,210 km downrange200 km up

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Launch window and padVandenberg SFB, CA, USA
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Rocket and boosterTitan 33B
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Titan 33B

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MissionGovernment/Top Secret · Elliptical

Government/Top Secret · Elliptical

What it put in orbit2 catalogued objects, 1 of them satellites
ObjectTypeOrbit
OPS 7724 1973-056A Payload 675 × 39667 km · 63.0° Globe
TITAN 34B AGENA D R/B 1973-056B Rocket body re-entered 2020-02-25

COSPAR ID 1973-056. Orbits from the CelesTrak satellite catalogue (perigee × apogee, inclination).

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