Galaxy 2, a Hughes HS-376 commercial communications satellite for Hughes Communications, launched on a Delta 3920/PAM-D from Cape Canaveral into geosynchronous orbit for U.S. domestic television and telecom services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 6 Delta 3920/PAM flights
- Date and time
- 22 September 1983, 22:16 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta 3920/PAM
- Builder
- McDonnell Douglas
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 17A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1983-098
- Launches in 1983
- 99th of 129
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