Thor Delta D | Early Bird
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Instantaneous launch window.
Launch Window
April 6, 1965, 11:47 p.m. - April 6, 1965, 11:47 p.m.
Instantaneous launch window.
April 6, 1965, 11:47 p.m. - April 6, 1965, 11:47 p.m.
Early Bird, also known as Intelsat I, the world's first commercial communications satellite, was built for the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT) by the Space and Communications Group of Hughes Aircraft Company, later Hughes Space and Communications Company.
American orbital launch vehicle family with Thor first stage and a delta second stage.
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Unknown satellite(s) for the Russian military.
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JAXA-manifested rideshare of eight separate spacecraft that includes educational small sats, an ocean monitoring satellite, a demonstration satellite…
Sub-orbital launch under Rocket Lab’s Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron (HASTE) program, details TBD.
Tenth of ten GPS III missions.
A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.