Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B launched NATO 3C, a spin-stabilized military communications satellite for NATO providing secure UHF/SHF links among Alliance members from geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 706 kg
- Flight
- 28th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 19 November 1978, 00:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1978-106
- Launches in 1978
- 110th of 128
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