Launched Galaxy 8i, a Hughes HS-601HP communications satellite for PanAmSat, from Cape Canaveral. Its 32 Ku-band transponders provided DIRECTV television service to Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean via Galaxy Latin America.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T
- Flight
- 12th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 8 December 1997, 23:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1997-078
- Launches in 1997
- 81st of 89
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