Atlas V 501 launched the classified NROL-41 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office — USA-215, reportedly the first satellite in the NRO's next-generation Topaz radar-imaging reconnaissance series — from Vandenberg AFB, marking the debut flight of the Atlas V 501 configuration.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- SSO
- Sun-synchronous orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 2nd
- of 8 Atlas V 501 flights
- Date and time
- 21 September 2010, 04:03 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 501
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2010-046
- Launches in 2010
- 48th of 74
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