LaunchesDSCS-3 B8
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DSCS-3 B8
Atlas IIA · Communications
2000Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral
Mission
DSCS-3 (Defense Satellite Communications System 3) are geostationary communications satellites, which provide a robust anti-jam, nuclear hardened capability that supports Department of Defense (DoD) worldwide requirements, White House and Diplomatic communications. They are the follow-on generation of the DSCS-2 satellites.
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Mission Facts
- Provider
- Lockheed Martin
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Pad
- Launch Complex 36A
- NET precision
- Year
- Data source
- LL2