Maiden Atlas G Centaur flight from Cape Canaveral LC-36B carried Intelsat 509, but a Centaur upper-stage malfunction left the communications satellite in a useless low orbit (launch failure).
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 7 Atlas G Centaur flights
- Date and time
- 9 June 1984, 23:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas G Centaur
- Builder
- Convair
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1984-057
- Launches in 1984
- 57th of 129
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