Atlas IIIA launched MBSat (Sakura 2/JCSAT-9), a joint Japanese-Singaporean mobile broadcasting satellite, from Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit. This was the second and final flight of the Atlas IIIA variant.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.1 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 2 Atlas IIIA flights
- Date and time
- 13 March 2004, 05:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2004-007
- Launches in 2004
- 7th of 54
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