Lockheed Martin Atlas IIAS carried the Space Systems/Loral-built EchoStar VI direct-broadcast satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral, extending EchoStar's DBS fleet with one of the most powerful commercial broadcasting satellites of its time.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.7 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 14 July 2000, 05:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-038
- Launches in 2000
- 40th of 85
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