Launched GOES-9 (GOES-J), a NOAA geostationary weather satellite built by Space Systems/Loral, later stationed at 135 degrees West to monitor the US West Coast and Pacific.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 11 Atlas I flights
- Date and time
- 23 May 1995, 05:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas I
- Builder
- GD
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 1995-025
- Launches in 1995
- 28th of 80
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