Atlas IIA launched GE-2, a geostationary communications satellite for GE Americom (later SES), stationed at 84.9°W to relay cable television programming across North America.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 8th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 8 September 1996, 21:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-054
- Launches in 1996
- 58th of 77
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