Atlas IIA launch from Cape Canaveral carrying DSCS III B-7 (USA-113), the fifth Defense Satellite Communications System III spacecraft, upgrading the U.S. Air Force's global military communications constellation.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 31 July 1995, 23:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-038
- Launches in 1995
- 42nd of 80
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