Launched the second Boeing X-37B robotic spaceplane on its maiden flight, OTV-2 (USA-226), from Cape Canaveral; the vehicle spent 468 days in orbit before landing at Vandenberg in June 2012.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 8 Atlas V 501 flights
- Date and time
- 5 March 2011, 22:46 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 501
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2011-010
- Launches in 2011
- 11th of 84
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