Carried the Intelsat 805 communications satellite to geostationary transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral. The satellite provided C-band and Ku-band coverage over the Atlantic Ocean region; the launch was the Atlas booster family's 550th flight overall.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 18 June 1998, 22:48 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-037
- Launches in 1998
- 38th of 82
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