GOES 5 (GOES-E), a NOAA geostationary weather satellite launched on a Delta 3914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A to provide continuous hemispheric Earth imaging and space-weather monitoring over the Americas; primary instrument later failed in 1984.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 836 kg
- Flight
- 8th
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 22 May 1981, 22:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1981-049
- Launches in 1981
- 51st of 126
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