Atlas IIA launched a Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS III B13) military satellite from Cape Canaveral into geostationary transfer orbit, adding to the U.S. Air Force's hardened, anti-jam DSCS constellation supporting Pentagon and diplomatic communications.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.5 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 25 October 1997, 00:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-065
- Launches in 1997
- 67th of 89
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