Deployed the GE-3 (later AMC-3) communications satellite for GE Americom, a hybrid C-band/Ku-band spacecraft with 24 transponders of each type providing voice and video services to North America from 127 degrees West.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2.8 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 4 September 1997, 12:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-050
- Launches in 1997
- 52nd of 89
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