Atlas I launched Galaxy 5, a Hughes HS-376 communications satellite for PanAmSat, into geostationary transfer orbit; the spacecraft went on to provide C- and Ku-band coverage of North America for over a decade.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.4 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 14 March 1992, 00:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1992-013
- Launches in 1992
- 14th of 97
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