The first Commercial Titan III flight carried two geostationary communications satellites, the UK's Skynet 4A military satellite and Japan's JCSAT-2, from Cape Canaveral into a direct geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 8 T (est.)
- Flight
- 1st
- of 4 Commercial Titan III flights
- Date and time
- 1 January 1990, 00:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Commercial Titan III
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1990-001
- Launches in 1990
- 1st of 121
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