Atlas IIAS launched Hispasat 1D, a 3.3-tonne Spanish geostationary communications satellite carrying 28 Ku-band transponders across three steerable antennas to deliver video, data, and internet services to Europe, North America, and North Africa.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.3 T
- Flight
- 25th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 18 September 2002, 22:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2002-044
- Launches in 2002
- 45th of 65
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