Atlas V 501 launched the classified NROL-39 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg, widely believed to be a Future Imagery Architecture radar-reconnaissance satellite; the mission also deployed 12 CubeSats built by the military, NASA and universities.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7.1 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 8 Atlas V 501 flights
- Date and time
- 6 December 2013, 07:14 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 501
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2013-072
- Launches in 2013
- 74th of 81
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