Delta 2313 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B launched Italy’s Sirio 1 into geostationary orbit, an experimental SHF communications satellite also carrying plasma, field, and low-energy cosmic-ray experiments for Italian research.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 398 kg
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Delta 2313 flights
- Date and time
- 25 August 1977, 23:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2313
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1977-080
- Launches in 1977
- 83rd of 130
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