A ULA Atlas V 421 launched NASA's Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission from Cape Canaveral, deploying four identical spacecraft in formation to study magnetic reconnection in Earth's magnetosphere.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 5.4 T
- Flight
- 4th
- of 9 Atlas V 421 flights
- Date and time
- 13 March 2015, 02:44 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 421
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2015-011
- Launches in 2015
- 12th of 87
See it in orbit
Space Atlas shows the satellites and rocket stages from this launch in 3D.
Object pages on Space Atlas: MMS 1
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