Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B launched Japan's CS-1 (Sakura 1) into geostationary orbit for NASDA, the first Japanese experimental domestic communications satellite for Ka/C-band relay trials over Japan.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 677 kg
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1977, 00:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1977-118
- Launches in 1977
- 124th of 130
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