Launched GOES-8 (GOES-I), the first of NOAA's upgraded Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites, from Cape Canaveral to provide continuous weather imagery and data relay from geosynchronous orbit at 75 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 13 April 1994, 06:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1994-022
- Launches in 1994
- 23rd of 93
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