Carried NOAA's GOES-M weather satellite (later GOES-12) from Cape Canaveral into a supersynchronous transfer orbit. It served as an on-orbit spare before becoming the operational GOES-East satellite in April 2003.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Super-GTO
- Supersynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.3 T
- Flight
- 21st
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 23 July 2001, 07:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Planetary Science
- International designator
- 2001-031
- Launches in 2001
- 31st of 59
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