Launched Inmarsat 3-F1, the first of a new third-generation Inmarsat satellite series featuring spot-beam technology, positioned in geostationary orbit at 64 degrees East to provide global mobile voice and data services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 3 April 1996, 23:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-020
- Launches in 1996
- 21st of 77
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