Carried a UHF Follow-On Navy communications satellite from Cape Canaveral; the Centaur upper stage underperformed on its first burn and failed to complete its second, stranding the payload in a useless orbit.
- Outcome
- Failure
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- Did not reach orbit
- Flight
- 5th
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 25 March 1993, 21:38 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-015
- Launches in 1993
- 15th of 83
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