Intelsat IV F-4, a Hughes-built commercial geostationary communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium. Atlas SLV-3C Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B delivered the craft to GEO for international telephone and TV relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 17 Atlas SLV-3C Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 23 January 1972, 00:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3C Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1972-003
- Launches in 1972
- 3rd of 113
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