Carried MUOS-2, the second Mobile User Objective System satellite, into geosynchronous transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral for the US Navy, extending a next-generation UHF satellite communications network for mobile military users worldwide.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.7 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 19 July 2013, 13:00 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2013-036
- Launches in 2013
- 38th of 81
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