Anik B1, Telesat Canada's first hybrid C/Ku-band communications satellite and early commercial direct-broadcast platform, with secondary DRIMS experiment. Delta 3914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A placed the RCA AS-3000 craft toward GEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 922 kg
- Flight
- 5th
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 1978, 00:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1978-116
- Launches in 1978
- 120th of 128
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