Delta 2910 from Vandenberg SLC-2W launched Landsat 3 (ERTS-C), NASA’s third Earth-resources imaging satellite, with secondary payloads AMSAT OSCAR 8 amateur radio satellite and the PIX plasma-interaction experiment.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 927 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 6 Delta 2910 flights
- Date and time
- 5 March 1978, 17:54 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2910
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 2W, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1978-026
- Launches in 1978
- 26th of 128
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