MUOS-1, the first Mobile User Objective System satellite, a US Navy narrowband tactical communications spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral. The mission also marked the 200th flight of the Centaur upper stage.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 24 February 2012, 22:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2012-009
- Launches in 2012
- 9th of 78
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