Delivered the U.S. Navy's third Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-3) satellite to geostationary transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral. At roughly 15,000 lb it was the heaviest payload an Atlas V had flown, using the rocket's five-solid-booster 551 configuration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 5th
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 21 January 2015, 01:04 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2015-002
- Launches in 2015
- 2nd of 87
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