Delta 3910/PAM-D from Cape Canaveral LC-17A launched SBS-1, the first Satellite Business Systems commercial geostationary communications satellite for U.S. business voice and data services; retired to graveyard orbit in June 1990.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Delta 3910/PAM flights
- Date and time
- 15 November 1980, 22:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3910/PAM
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1980-091
- Launches in 1980
- 93rd of 108
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