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1969 Wire Photo Titan 3C rocket blasts TACCOMSAT to orbit from Cape Kennedy - Historic Images

1969 Press Photo Titan 3C rocket blasts TACCOMSAT to orbit from Cape Kennedy

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Powerful, 130-foot-tall Titan 3C rocket blasts away from Cape Kennedy to drill the western world's largest communications spacecraft toward a stationary orbit 22,300 miles over the Pacific, west of South America. Called TACCOMSAT for Tactical Communications Satellite, the 1,600 pound payload was a forerunner of a satellite network that could link small military units on the front lines at sea and in aircraft.

Photo measures 7.5 x 10.5 inches.

Photo is dated 02-09-1969.



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