Westar 5, a Western Union commercial C-band communications satellite (Hughes HS-376, 24 transponders). Delta 3910/PAM-D from Cape Canaveral placed the craft in GEO as a replacement for Westar 2.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 7 Delta 3910/PAM flights
- Date and time
- 9 June 1982, 00:24 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3910/PAM
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1982-058
- Launches in 1982
- 60th of 129
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