Atlas IIAS launched JCSAT-3, a Hughes HS-601 commercial communications satellite for Japan's JSAT Corporation, from Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit for service at 128 degrees East.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 29 August 1995, 00:53 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-043
- Launches in 1995
- 48th of 80
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