Atlas V 401 launched NASA's TDRS-M satellite from Cape Canaveral, the final third-generation Tracking and Data Relay Satellite. Renamed TDRS-13 on orbit, it joined the constellation relaying communications between mission control and spacecraft including the ISS.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T
- Flight
- 37th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 18 August 2017, 12:29 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2017-047
- Launches in 2017
- 50th of 90
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