Atlas IIA launched Hot Bird 2, a Eutelsat direct-broadcast television satellite, into geostationary transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral to expand Eutelsat's Hot Bird broadcasting position at 13 degrees East.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.9 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 21 November 1996, 20:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-067
- Launches in 1996
- 71st of 77
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