Skynet 1A, the first UK military communications satellite for the Ministry of Defence, launched on a Thor Delta M from Cape Canaveral into geosynchronous orbit to provide strategic communications for British forces.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 243 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 12 Thor Delta M flights
- Date and time
- 22 November 1969, 00:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Thor Delta M
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1969-101
- Launches in 1969
- 114th of 125
See it in orbit
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Object pages on Space Atlas: Skynet 1A
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