An Atlas V 421 launched NROL-61, a classified reconnaissance satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, to geostationary transfer orbit; it was the first NRO mission to fly the 421 configuration and its extra-extended payload fairing.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 9 Atlas V 421 flights
- Date and time
- 28 July 2016, 12:37 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 421
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2016-047
- Launches in 2016
- 47th of 85
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