Galaxy 1, the first Hughes Communications HS-376 C-band geostationary communications satellite, launched on a Delta 3920/PAM-D from Cape Canaveral for U.S. commercial television, voice, and data relay services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 6 Delta 3920/PAM flights
- Date and time
- 28 June 1983, 23:08 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3920/PAM
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-065
- Launches in 1983
- 66th of 129
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