Atlas IIA launched USA-153, a DSCS III military communications satellite for the U.S. Defense Satellite Communications System, from Cape Canaveral's Pad 36A, joining ten other spacecraft in the DSCS constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.7 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 21 January 2000, 01:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-001
- Launches in 2000
- 1st of 85
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