Atlas IIA/Centaur (AC-120) launched the Galaxy IIIR communications satellite, built for Hughes/PanAmSat, into geosynchronous transfer orbit to provide North American cable and broadcast relay services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 15 December 1995, 00:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1995-069
- Launches in 1995
- 75th of 80
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