Atlas V 531 launched AEHF-1 (USA-214), the first Advanced Extremely High Frequency military communications satellite for the U.S. Air Force. A failed main engine forced use of backup hydrazine thrusters, delaying the satellite's climb to geosynchronous orbit by months.
- Outcome
- Success
- Payload to orbit
- 6.2 T
- Flight
- 1st
- of 5 Atlas V 531 flights
- Date and time
- 14 August 2010, 11:07 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 531
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Unknown
- International designator
- 2010-039
- Launches in 2010
- 41st of 74
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