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DSP F6
These Defense Support System satellites were the space-based segment of a 2-tiered ballistic missile launch detection and warning system.. DSP F6 was launched on June 26, 1976 aboard a Titan IIIC from Cape Canaveral & Kennedy. Latest status in GCAT: in orbit.
COSPAR 1976-059ANORAD 8916United States
Identity
- Name in GCAT
- DSP F6
- Payload designation
- DSP 7
- Other names
- OPS 2112
- International designator
- 1976-059A
- NORAD catalog number
- 8916
- GCAT identifier
- S08916
- UN registration
- A/AC.105/INF.351
Mission
- Mission type
- Missile early warning
- Use
- Defense
- Program
- DSP II
- Owner
- SAMSO
- Country
- United States
- Builder
- TRW Inc.
- Platform (bus)
- DSP P2
Launch
- Date
- June 26, 1976 · 03:00 UTC
- Launch record
- 1976-059Success
- Rocket
- Titan IIIC
- Spaceport
- Cape Canaveral & Kennedy · pad LC40
Orbit and fate
- Orbit class (GCAT)
- GEO/S
- Perigee
- 35,768 km
- Apogee
- 35,819 km
- Inclination
- 2.50°
- Status
- In orbit
- Last known active
- Mar 6, 1985
- End of operations
- Mar 6, 1985
Size
- Mass
- 1,040 kg
- Dry mass
- 980 kg
- Length
- 7.1 m
- Diameter
- 3.00 m
- Span
- 7.5 m
Source: GCAT payload, deep-space and lander catalogs, Jonathan C. McDowell (CC BY 4.0); Wikidata Q113172688 (CC0).