Atlas IIAS (AC-127) launched JCSAT-4, a Japanese communications satellite for JSAT Corporation, from Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit; the satellite was later transferred to Intelsat and renamed Intelsat 26.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 17 February 1997, 01:42 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-007
- Launches in 1997
- 8th of 89
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