Intelsat IV F-1, a Hughes-built geostationary commercial communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium with 12 C-band transponders. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1A from Cape Canaveral LC-36A placed the craft into GTO on the last Intelsat IV launch.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 22 May 1975, 22:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1975-042
- Launches in 1975
- 45th of 132
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