Carried the classified NROL-1 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 36A. This was the 63rd and final flight of the Atlas IIAS and the last launch from LC-36A after 42 years of service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Direct-GEO
- Geostationary orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3.5 T (est.)
- Flight
- 30th
- of 30 Atlas IIAS flights
- Date and time
- 31 August 2004, 23:17 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas IIAS
- Builder
- LM
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Communications
- International designator
- 2004-034
- Launches in 2004
- 34th of 54
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