Atlas V 421 launched ICO G1, then the heaviest commercial satellite ever flown on an Atlas V at over 6,600 kg, for ICO Global Communications' mobile interactive media service covering the continental United States from 92.85 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.6 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 9 Atlas V 421 flights
- Date and time
- 14 April 2008, 20:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 421
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2008-016
- Launches in 2008
- 16th of 69
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