Anik A3 (Telesat-3), the third Hughes HS-333 domestic geostationary communications satellite for Canada’s Telesat, with 12 C-band transponders for TV and telephone across the country. Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B placed the craft in GSO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 544 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 7 May 1975, 23:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1975-038
- Launches in 1975
- 41st of 132
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