Westar 3 (Westar C), a Western Union domestic communications satellite, launched on a Delta 2914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A into geostationary transfer orbit for U.S. commercial telephone, television, and data services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 572 kg (est.)
- Flight
- 30th
- of 30 Delta 2914 flights
- Date and time
- 10 August 1979, 00:20 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 2914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1979-072
- Launches in 1979
- 74th of 110
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