Syncom 3 (Syncom C), the first geostationary communications satellite, launched on the maiden Thor Delta D from Cape Canaveral LC-17A for NASA; stationed over the Pacific, it relayed TV coverage of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics among other communications experiments.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 66 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Thor Delta D flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 1964, 12:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta D
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1964-047
- Launches in 1964
- 56th of 100
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