Carried the classified NROL-45 payload for the US National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg's SLC-6, believed to be the fourth Topaz synthetic-aperture radar reconnaissance satellite (USA-267), into a retrograde low Earth orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 3 Delta IV M+(5,2) flights
- Date and time
- 10 February 2016, 11:40 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(5,2)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 6, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2016-010
- Launches in 2016
- 10th of 85
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