Intelsat-4A F-1, the first Intelsat IVA commercial communications satellite, roughly doubling IV capacity via C-band frequency reuse and spot beams. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR from Cape Canaveral LC-36B placed the ~1.5 t Hughes craft in GEO on 26 September 1975.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 26 September 1975, 00:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1975-091
- Launches in 1975
- 95th of 132
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