SMS-1 (SMS A), NASA's first Synchronous Meteorological Satellite and GOES precursor, launched on a Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral into GEO with VISSR day/night cloud imaging and space-environment monitors.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 627 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 17 May 1974, 09:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1974-033
- Launches in 1974
- 35th of 113
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