Atlas V 541 launched the classified NROL-42 mission for the US National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg Air Force Base into an elliptical orbit. Payload details remain undisclosed; the launch extended the Atlas V's perfect success record to 73 flights.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 9 Atlas V 541 flights
- Date and time
- 24 September 2017, 05:49 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 541
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2017-056
- Launches in 2017
- 59th of 90
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