Westar 2, Western Union’s second domestic geostationary C-band communications satellite (Hughes HS-333), expanding U.S. commercial telecom capacity after Westar 1. Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B placed the craft in GEO on 10 October 1974.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 572 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 10 October 1974, 22:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1974-075
- Launches in 1974
- 81st of 113
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