Launched the sixth and final Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF-6) satellite for the newly formed U.S. Space Force, providing secure, jam-resistant strategic communications; it was the Space Force's first mission.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 6.2 T
- Flight
- 11th
- of 23 Atlas V 551 flights
- Date and time
- 26 March 2020, 20:18 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 551
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2020-022
- Launches in 2020
- 24th of 114
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