Inaugural flight of the Atlas V 431 configuration carried Inmarsat-4 F1, then the heaviest commercial payload sent to geostationary transfer orbit, expanding Inmarsat's global L-band mobile communications network.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSTO
- Geosynchronous transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.9 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 3 Atlas V 431 flights
- Date and time
- 11 March 2005, 21:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 431
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2005-009
- Launches in 2005
- 9th of 56
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