Satcom 4, an RCA Americom commercial geostationary communications satellite, launched on a Delta 3910/PAM-D (D-159) from Cape Canaveral LC-17A to provide North American television and telecommunications relay.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 7 Delta 3910/PAM flights
- Date and time
- 16 January 1982, 01:55 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3910/PAM
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1982-004
- Launches in 1982
- 4th of 129
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