Launched the AFSPC-11 mission for the U.S. Air Force from Cape Canaveral, deploying the CBAS communications-augmentation satellite and the EAGLE ESPA-based technology demonstrator directly into near-geostationary orbit.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 4 T (est.)
- Flight
- 8th
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 14 April 2018, 23:13 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2018-036
- Launches in 2018
- 36th of 114
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