Launched USA 140, the UHF Follow-On F9 satellite, into geostationary orbit for the US Navy; the first of the series to add a Global Broadcast Service Ka-band video relay payload alongside its UHF/EHF communications transponders.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.2 T
- Flight
- 15th
- of 23 Atlas IIA flights
- Date and time
- 20 October 1998, 07:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIA
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 1998-058
- Launches in 1998
- 63rd of 82
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