The AFSPC-6 mission launched two Orbital ATK-built GSSAP surveillance satellites for US Air Force Space Command, joining two earlier spacecraft in near-geosynchronous orbit to monitor objects around GEO.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T
- Flight
- 14th
- of 15 Delta IV M+(4,2) flights
- Date and time
- 19 August 2016, 04:52 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV M+(4,2)
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2016-052
- Launches in 2016
- 52nd of 85
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