Atlas V 551 launched the U.S. Navy's fifth and final Mobile User Objective System (MUOS-5) satellite from Cape Canaveral, completing the constellation that provides secure UHF communications for mobile military forces worldwide.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.8 T
- Flight
- 7th
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 24 June 2016, 14:30 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2016-041
- Launches in 2016
- 41st of 85
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