The maiden flight of the Atlas IIIB rocket carried EchoStar VII, an A2100-based direct-broadcast satellite with 32 Ku-band transponders built by Lockheed Martin, to geosynchronous transfer orbit for EchoStar's DISH Network service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 4 Atlas IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 21 February 2002, 12:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-006
- Launches in 2002
- 6th of 65
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