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Atlas IIAS
Launched 2000-02-03 23:30:01 UTCLaunch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
Success
Reached Geostationary Orbit
Worldwide
7th
orbital launch attempt in 2000
Lockheed Martin
2nd
launch this year
Launch Complex 36B
1st
launch from this pad this year
Pad turnaround
72 d 19 h
since the pad's previous launch
Hispasat 1C and 1D are powerful telecommunications satellite based on a Spacebus-3000B2 platform with 28 Ku-band channels built by Alcatel Space for the Spanish company HISPASAT S.A. They offer pan-European and pan-American multi-area coverage. This coverage can extend to certain areas of North Africa. The flexibility offered by the satellite's design will allow users to benefit from intercontinental links between Europe and the Americas.
Lockheed Martin's Space Division started in the production of missiles and later ICBM's in the 1950s. Their TITAN missile system was used for 12 Gemini spacecraft and the Voyager probes. They have worked largely in collaboration with NASA on many of their probes, landers, and spacecraft, and hope to play a key role in NASA's return to the moon in 2024.
Launches
80
Successful
77
96%
Upcoming
0
scheduled
Height
47.5m
Diameter
3m
To low Earth orbit
6,580kg
Liftoff thrust
4,391kN
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