Atlas V 401 launched the U.S. Air Force's DMSP-F18 weather satellite from Vandenberg, the 600th Atlas-family launch. One solar array failed to fully deploy, but the spacecraft still entered service.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 1.2 T (est.)
- Flight
- 9th
- of 41 Atlas V 401 flights
- Date and time
- 18 October 2009, 16:12 UTC
- Rocket
- Atlas V 401
- Builder
- ULA
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 3E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
- Payload
- Earth Science
- International designator
- 2009-057
- Launches in 2009
- 60th of 78
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