Orbited JCSAT-6, a Ku-band communications satellite for Japan's JSAT Corporation providing relay and broadcast services across Japan and the Asia-Pacific region, to geostationary transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 16 February 1999, 01:45 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-006
- Launches in 1999
- 6th of 78
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