FLTSATCOM 1 (OPS 6291), the first U.S. Navy Fleet Satellite Communications spacecraft, launched on an Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36A into geosynchronous orbit for secure UHF/SHF links among Navy, Air Force, and National Command Authority users.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 9 February 1978, 21:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 1978-016
- Launches in 1978
- 16th of 128
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