Delta IV Heavy launched the classified NROL-65 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg, widely believed to be a KH-11 Kennan-class electro-optical reconnaissance satellite.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 14 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 28 August 2013, 18:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 6, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2013-043
- Launches in 2013
- 45th of 81
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