Satcom 1 (RCA-A), RCA Americom’s first commercial U.S. domestic communications satellite. Delta 3914 (D-118) from Cape Canaveral LC-17A placed the craft in geostationary orbit; maiden flight of the more powerful Delta 3914 variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 867 kg
- Flight
- 1st
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 1975, 01:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1975-117
- Launches in 1975
- 123rd of 132
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