Intelsat IVA F-3, a commercial geostationary communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium. Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B placed the craft in GEO to expand international C-band telephone, TV, and data services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 7 January 1978, 00:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1978-002
- Launches in 1978
- 2nd of 128
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