GOES 1 (GOES-A), NOAA/NASA first operational geostationary weather satellite, launched on a Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral to provide continuous Earth imaging and space-environment monitoring.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 612 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 16 October 1975, 22:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1975-100
- Launches in 1975
- 105th of 132
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