Comstar 1D (D4), a Hughes domestic C-band communications satellite for Comsat General (leased to AT&T/GTE), launched on an Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36A into geostationary orbit to carry U.S. telephone traffic.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 26th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 21 February 1981, 23:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1981-018
- Launches in 1981
- 19th of 126
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