RCA Satcom 3 commercial domestic communications satellite on a Delta 3914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A. Launch to GTO succeeded, but the spacecraft was lost when its apogee kick motor fired three days later and contact was never re-established.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 867 kg
- Flight
- 6th
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 7 December 1979, 01:35 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1979-101
- Launches in 1979
- 105th of 110
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