Atlas IIAS | Telstar 401
The Telstar 4 series was the successor to AT&T’s Telstar 3 series. The spacecraft were built on Lockheed Martin’s AS-7000 bus and featured 24 C-band and 16 Ku-band transponders.
Atlas II was a member of the Atlas family of launch vehicles, which evolved from the successful Atlas missile program of the 1950s. It was designed to launch payloads into low earth orbit, geosynchronous transfer orbit or geosynchronous orbit. Sixty-three launches of the Atlas II, IIA and IIAS models were carried out between 1991 and 2004; all sixty-three launches were successes, making the Atlas II the most reliable launch system in history.
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Mission Profile
Telstar 401 was a Atlas IIAS mission operated by United States Air Force that lifted off from Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA on December 16, 1993. The flight carried its payload on a communications mission to Geostationary Orbit. The launch was a success.