Atlas II launched the UHF Follow-On F8 satellite for the U.S. Navy from Cape Canaveral, the first Block III UFO satellite carrying added Ka-band and EHF payloads including a video broadcast channel to replace the aging FLTSATCOM fleet.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 10 Atlas II flights
- Date and time
- 16 March 1998, 21:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas II
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-016
- Launches in 1998
- 17th of 82
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