Maiden flight of the Atlas IIA launched Intelsat K, Intelsat's first Ku-band-only satellite (rebuilt from the former Satcom K4), from Cape Canaveral SLC-36B to provide television and international broadcast capacity over the Atlantic region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 10 June 1992, 00:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1992-032
- Launches in 1992
- 33rd of 97
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