ULA's Atlas V 511 - the only launch of that configuration - carried the USSF-8 mission for the U.S. Space Force, delivering the GSSAP-5 and GSSAP-6 space-surveillance satellites directly to near-geosynchronous orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GSO
- Geosynchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1 T
- Flight
- 1st
- Only Atlas V 511 flight
- Date and time
- 21 January 2022, 19:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 511
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2022-006
- Launches in 2022
- 6th of 186
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