Delta 3914 from Cape Canaveral LC-17A launched GOES-F (GOES-6), a Hughes NOAA geostationary weather satellite providing continuous U.S. meteorological imaging and space-weather monitoring until retirement in 1992.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 839 kg
- Flight
- 9th
- of 12 Delta 3914 flights
- Date and time
- 28 April 1983, 22:26 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3914
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1983-041
- Launches in 1983
- 42nd of 129
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