Comstar 1A (D1), the first COMSAT Comstar domestic communications satellite for U.S. commercial telephone and TV relay. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur-D1AR (AC-38) from Cape Canaveral SLC-36A placed the craft in geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 13 May 1976, 22:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1976-042
- Launches in 1976
- 43rd of 131
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