NATO 2A, a military geosynchronous communications satellite for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization launched on a Thor Delta M from Cape Canaveral LC-17B to provide Alliance strategic satellite communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 243 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 12 Thor Delta M flights
- Date and time
- 20 March 1970, 23:52 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
- 1970-021
- Launches in 1970
- 23rd of 124
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