Launched NROL-24 (USA-198), codenamed Scorpius, a classified Quasar 3G satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office's Satellite Data System relaying data from other NRO spacecraft to ground stations, into a highly elliptical Molniya orbit from Cape Canaveral.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- Elliptical
- Elliptical orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 3 T (est.)
- Flight
- 6th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 10 December 2007, 22:05 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Government/Top Secret
- International designator
- 2007-060
- Launches in 2007
- 63rd of 68
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