Atlas IIA launched the Tempo 2 direct broadcast satellite from Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit, providing high-power Ku-band television distribution to cable operators and home dishes.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 8 March 1997, 06:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-011
- Launches in 1997
- 12th of 89
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