Atlas I launched UHF F/O F2 (USA 95), a Hughes HS-601 ultra-high-frequency communications satellite for the US Navy, into a subsynchronous transfer orbit before it was positioned in geosynchronous orbit at 72 degrees East.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 3 September 1993, 11:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-056
- Launches in 1993
- 58th of 83
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