Maiden flight of the Atlas IIAS from Cape Canaveral, launching the Telstar 401 communications satellite for AT&T, one of the most powerful commercial satellites of its time, offering C- and Ku-band services across North America.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 16 December 1993, 00:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1993-077
- Launches in 1993
- 81st of 83
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