Placed the EchoStar V direct-broadcast satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral, into geostationary transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral. This was the 63rd and final flight of the Atlas IIAS and the last launch from historic Launch Complex 36A.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 17th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 23 September 1999, 06:02 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1999-050
- Launches in 1999
- 52nd of 78
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