An Atlas IIA launched NASA's TDRS-9 (TDRS-I) communications relay satellite from Cape Canaveral, completing a three-satellite, $800 million contract with Boeing and marking the final flight of the Atlas IIA rocket.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 22nd
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 8 March 2002, 22:59 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-011
- Launches in 2002
- 11th of 65
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