NOAA-4 (ITOS-G), a polar-orbiting weather satellite with VHRR, VTPR, and SR instruments, plus secondary payloads AMSAT-OSCAR 7 and Spain’s Intasat. Delta 2310 from Vandenberg SLC-2W placed the stack in sun-synchronous orbit on 15 November 1974 for NOAA meteorological imaging.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 399 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Delta 2310 flights
- Date and time
- 15 November 1974, 17:11 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2310
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1974-089
- Launches in 1974
- 96th of 113
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