Lifted off from Pad 36A at Cape Canaveral carrying a Defense Satellite Communications System III (DSCS III) satellite for the U.S. Air Force into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 20th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 2000, 00:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-065
- Launches in 2000
- 67th of 85
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