Launched the classified NROL-49 payload -- a KH-11 electro-optical reconnaissance satellite -- for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office from Vandenberg AFB, the first Delta IV Heavy flight from the West Coast.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 14 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 16 Delta IV Heavy flights
- Date and time
- 20 January 2011, 21:10 UTC
- Rocket
- Delta IV Heavy
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 6, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2011-002
- Launches in 2011
- 2nd of 84
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