Classified NRO payload NROL-52, believed to be the second next-generation SDS/Quasar geosynchronous communications-relay satellite (catalogued USA-279), launched on an Atlas V 421 from Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5.6 T (est.)
- Flight
- 7th
- of 9 Atlas V 421 flights
- Date and time
- 15 October 2017, 07:28 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 421
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2017-066
- Launches in 2017
- 69th of 90
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