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Launch Success
Liftoff Time (GMT)
02:47:00
Sunday January 18, 2009
Watch Replay
Official Livestream
USA 202, previously NRO Launch 26 or NROL-26, is a classified spacecraft which is operated by the United States National Reconnaissance Office. It is an Advanced Orion ELINT satellite. According to Aviation Week, it "fundamentally involves America's biggest, most secret and expensive military spacecraft on board the world's largest rocket." The combined cost of the spacecraft and launch vehicle has been estimated to be over US$2 billion.
Geostationary Earth Orbit
1 Payload
Agency
ULAPrice
$350.00 million
Rocket
Height: 72m
Payload to Orbit
LEO: 28,370 kg
GTO: 13,810 kg
Liftoff Thrust
9,411 Kilonewtons
Fairing
Diameter: 5.1m
Height: 19.1m
Stages
2
Strap-ons
2
3rd
Mission
1st
Mission of 2009
22nd
Mission
1st
Mission of 2009
1st
Orbital launch attempt