Intelsat IVA F-5, a commercial geostationary communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur (AC-43) from Cape Canaveral LC-36A failed about a minute after liftoff when an Atlas thrust-section fire destroyed the vehicle and Range Safety destroyed Centaur.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 13th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 30 September 1977, 01:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- Launches in 1977
- 102nd of 130