Launched a classified National Reconnaissance Office payload (USA-155) into a mission-specific geosynchronous transfer orbit — the first NRO national-security mission flown on an Atlas IIAS after the payload class moved over from the Titan IV.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 21st
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 6 December 2000, 02:47 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2000-080
- Launches in 2000
- 82nd of 85
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