Atlas IIIB (AC-203) launched the UHF Follow-On F11 (USA-174) satellite for the U.S. Navy, placing the roughly 2,900 kg UHF communications payload into geostationary transfer orbit; the mission was the Atlas program's 68th consecutive success.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 4 Atlas IIIB flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 2003, 02:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIIB
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2003-057
- Launches in 2003
- 59th of 63
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