Intelsat IV F-8, a Hughes commercial geostationary communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR (AC-33) from Cape Canaveral LC-36B placed the craft in GEO transfer on 21 November 1974 for global trunk telephony and TV relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 21 November 1974, 23:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1974-093
- Launches in 1974
- 100th of 113
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