Atlas IIAS launched the Intelsat 806 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral, a 36 C-band/6 Ku-band spacecraft later transferred to New Skies as NSS-806 to serve Latin America, Iberia and much of Europe.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 13th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 28 February 1998, 00:21 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-014
- Launches in 1998
- 15th of 82
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