ICO F2

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 19 June 2001, 04:41 am UTC

Rocket: Atlas IIAS (Atlas)

Provider: Lockheed Martin

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geosynchronous Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

The ICO-2 satellite was launched by British New ICO (formerly ICO Global Communications) to provide mobile communications and data/Internet services at S-band, supporting 4500 simultaneous calls.