Delivered the classified NROL-35 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg into a Molniya-style elliptical orbit, widely believed to be a Trumpet-class signals-intelligence satellite. First flight of the Centaur upper stage's new RL10C engine.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 9 Atlas V 541 flights
- Date and time
- 13 December 2014, 03:19 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 541
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2014-081
- Launches in 2014
- 83rd of 92
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