ULA's Atlas V 431 delivered EchoStar 19 (Jupiter-2), a high-throughput Ka-band broadband satellite built by Space Systems/Loral for Hughes' HughesNet internet service, into a supersynchronous transfer orbit peaking near 65,000 km.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 3 Atlas V 431 flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 2016, 19:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 431
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-079
- Launches in 2016
- 81st of 85
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