Atlas IIA launched TDRS-8 (TDRS-H), the first of NASA's second-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellites, into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral, extending the space-based network that relays data from the Space Shuttle, ISS, and science satellites.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 19th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 30 June 2000, 12:56 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-034
- Launches in 2000
- 36th of 85
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