Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B launched Intelsat IVA F-6 into geosynchronous transfer orbit, a commercial international communications satellite for the Intelsat consortium’s global C-band network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 16th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 31 March 1978, 23:36 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1978-035
- Launches in 1978
- 36th of 128
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