ULA's Atlas V, flying in its most powerful 551 configuration, launched the classified SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 space-domain-awareness payload for the NRO and Space Force toward near-geosynchronous orbit from Cape Canaveral. It was the last NRO mission to fly on Atlas V.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 13th
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 10 September 2023, 12:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2023-140
- Launches in 2023
- 148th of 223
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