Atlas IIA launched DBS-2 (DirecTV 2) from Cape Canaveral to geostationary transfer orbit, expanding Hughes/DirecTV's direct-broadcast satellite TV service; the spacecraft carried a SpaceArc time capsule with messages from then-VP Al Gore and predecessor Dan Quayle.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 3 August 1994, 23:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1994-047
- Launches in 1994
- 50th of 93
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