Delta IV Heavy launched the classified NROL-37 payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral, deploying it directly to geosynchronous orbit. It was the 10th NRO mission flown on the Delta IV family.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 11 June 2016, 17:51 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 37A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2016-036
- Launches in 2016
- 36th of 85
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