Launched the U.S. Navy's MUOS-4 satellite, the fourth in a Lockheed Martin-built tactical communications constellation, using the Atlas V's most powerful 551 configuration with five solid rocket boosters.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 6th
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 2 September 2015, 10:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2015-044
- Launches in 2015
- 47th of 87
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