Atlas IIA (AC-129) launched Inmarsat-3 F3 from Cape Canaveral, a third-generation mobile communications satellite for the Inmarsat network providing global maritime, aeronautical and land voice and data services.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.1 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 18 December 1996, 01:57 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1996-070
- Launches in 1996
- 74th of 77
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