Atlas IIAS launched EchoStar III, a direct-broadcast television satellite, from Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit, joining EchoStar I and II to expand the DISH Network TV service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.7 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 5 October 1997, 21:01 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-059
- Launches in 1997
- 61st of 89
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