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Syncom 1
Launch SuccessfulLaunch 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.