Deployed Palapa C1, an Indonesian HS-601 communications satellite built by Hughes for Satelindo with 30 C-band and 4 Ku-band transponders. The satellite later suffered a power anomaly that shortened its usable service life.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 1 February 1996, 01:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-006
- Launches in 1996
- 6th of 77
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