Atlas V 401 launched USA-257, codenamed CLIO, a classified electronic intelligence satellite believed to be operated by the National Reconnaissance Office, placed into an unusual high-perigee geostationary transfer orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 25th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 17 September 2014, 00:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2014-055
- Launches in 2014
- 56th of 92
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