Intelsat IV F-2, the first Intelsat IV geostationary communications satellite launched on an Atlas-Centaur from Cape Kennedy, providing commercial international telephone and television relay capacity for the Intelsat consortium.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 26 January 1971, 00:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1971-006
- Launches in 1971
- 6th of 133
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