Satcom 2, RCA Americom’s second commercial U.S. domestic communications satellite. Delta 3914 (D-121) from Cape Canaveral SLC-17A placed the craft in geostationary orbit for telephone, TV, and data relay over North America.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 867 kg
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 26 March 1976, 22:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1976-029
- Launches in 1976
- 30th of 131
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