Atlas IIAS launched the Superbird-6 (Superbird A2) communications satellite from Cape Canaveral for Space Communications Corporation of Japan, carrying C-band transponders to a geostationary slot at 158 degrees East for business telecom services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 28th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 16 April 2004, 00:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2004-011
- Launches in 2004
- 11th of 54
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