Carried the Astra 1KR direct-broadcast satellite, built by Lockheed Martin for SES, into geostationary transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral. It replaced Astra 1K, which had failed to reach orbit in 2002.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4.3 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 6 Atlas V 411 flights
- Date and time
- 20 April 2006, 20:27 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 411
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2006-012
- Launches in 2006
- 13th of 66
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