INSAT-1A, India's first multipurpose domestic communications and meteorology satellite for ISRO. Delta 3910/PAM-D from Cape Canaveral LC-17A reached GEO successfully, but attitude-control problems led to loss of the spacecraft by September 1982.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 7 Delta 3910/PAM flights
- Date and time
- 10 April 1982, 06:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3910/PAM
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1982-031
- Launches in 1982
- 32nd of 129
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