Atlas II launched the DSCS III B-10 satellite for the U.S. Air Force's Defense Satellite Communications System, providing secure military communications from geosynchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 10 Atlas II flights
- Date and time
- 28 November 1993, 23:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas II
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-074
- Launches in 1993
- 78th of 83
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