GOES 4 (GOES-D), a NOAA geostationary operational environmental satellite for continuous weather imaging and space-environment monitoring over the Western Hemisphere. Delta 3914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A; later retired to graveyard orbit in 1988.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 840 kg
- Flight
- 7th
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 9 September 1980, 22:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1980-074
- Launches in 1980
- 76th of 108
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