Launched the USA-194 (NROL-30) pair of Naval Ocean Surveillance System satellites for the NRO. A leaky Centaur valve caused early engine shutdown, leaving the satellites in a lower-than-planned orbit that they corrected using their own propulsion.
- Outcome
- Partial
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 5th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 15 June 2007, 15:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2007-027
- Launches in 2007
- 29th of 68
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