Intelsat V F-1, an international commercial communications satellite for Intelsat, launched on an Atlas SLV-3D Centaur from Cape Canaveral LC-36B into geostationary orbit to provide multi-band telephone, TV, and data links.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.9 T
- Flight
- 27th
- of 32 Atlas SLV-3D Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 23 May 1981, 22:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas SLV-3D Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1981-050
- Launches in 1981
- 52nd of 126
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