Atlas V 401 launched NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory from Cape Canaveral as part of the Living With a Star program. SDO continuously images the Sun across multiple wavelengths to study solar activity and its influence on Earth and near-Earth space.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Enhanced-GTO
- Geostationary transfer orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.1 T
- Flight
- 10th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 11 February 2010, 15:23 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Heliophysics
- International designator
- 2010-005
- Launches in 2010
- 5th of 74
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