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Syncom 1

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 14 Feb 1963, 05:35 am UTC

Rocket: Thor Delta B (Thor)

Provider: United States Air Force

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geosynchronous Orbit

Pad: Space Launch Complex 17B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

Syncom 1 was designed to be the first test of a communications satellite in geosynchronous orbit.