CTS (Hermes), a joint Canadian–U.S. experimental high-power Ku-band communications technology satellite—the first to demonstrate direct-broadcast TV to small dishes. Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral SLC-17B placed the ~680 kg craft in GEO on 17 January 1976.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 685 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 17 January 1976, 23:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1976-004
- Launches in 1976
- 4th of 131
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