Atlas II launched from Cape Canaveral carrying the classified DSCS III B9 (USA-93) military communications satellite for the US Defense Satellite Communications System into geosynchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 4th
- of 10 Atlas II flights
- Date and time
- 19 July 1993, 22:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas II
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-046
- Launches in 1993
- 47th of 83
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