Early Bird Mission
Launch Status
Success
Date & Time
6 Apr 1965, 11:47pm
UTC
Pad
Space Launch Complex 17A
Launch Service Provider
Vehicle
Mission
Early Bird
Mission Type
Communications
Destination
Geosynchronous Orbit
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.
Updated: Jan 3, 7:54pm UTC
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