Launched the Superbird-C communications satellite for Japan's Space Communications Corporation (SCC) from Cape Canaveral, a Hughes HS-601-bus spacecraft providing broadcast and data services over the Asia-Pacific region.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 28 July 1997, 01:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-036
- Launches in 1997
- 38th of 89
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