Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36A launched Intelsat IVA F-4, a Hughes commercial geostationary communications satellite providing expanded C-band capacity for the international Intelsat consortium.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 26 May 1977, 21:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1977-041
- Launches in 1977
- 42nd of 130
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