An Atlas V 521 launched Rainbow 1 (also known as Cablevision 1) from Cape Canaveral, a commercial communications satellite built to relay digital television programming for the Voom high-definition direct-broadcast satellite service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 2 Atlas V 521 flights
- Date and time
- 17 July 2003, 23:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 521
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-033
- Launches in 2003
- 33rd of 63
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