Launched the AEHF-4 satellite for the U.S. Space Force, the fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency spacecraft providing secure, jam-resistant strategic communications for the U.S. military.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.2 T
- Flight
- 9th
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 17 October 2018, 04:15 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2018-079
- Launches in 2018
- 80th of 114
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