NATO 2B (NATO IIB), the second NATO military communications satellite launched on a Delta M from Cape Canaveral into geosynchronous orbit to serve Alliance communications; final flight of the Delta M.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 243 kg
- Flight
- 12th
- of 12 Thor Delta M flights
- Date and time
- 3 February 1971, 01:41 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
- 1971-009
- Launches in 1971
- 9th of 133
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