SCATHA (P78-2), a U.S. Air Force Spacecraft Charging at High Altitudes research satellite, launched on a Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17B into a highly elliptical near-GEO orbit to study electrostatic charging and discharge on spacecraft.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 388 kg
- Flight
- 29th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 30 January 1979, 21:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Materials Science
- International designator
- 1979-007
- Launches in 1979
- 7th of 110
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