Atlas IIAS launched the classified NRO MLV-12 payload from Cape Canaveral's SLC-36B, believed to be a Naval Ocean Surveillance System satellite; only one companion subsatellite was deployed, unlike the pair used on earlier NOSS launches.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 24th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 11 October 2001, 02:32 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36B, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2001-046
- Launches in 2001
- 47th of 59
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