Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B launched Intelsat V F-2 (Intelsat 502), an international commercial geostationary communications satellite providing global telephone, television, and data relay services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 6 December 1980, 23:31 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1980-098
- Launches in 1980
- 100th of 108
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