Delta IV Medium+ (4,2)

Status

Success

AFSPC-4

Launch Time
Mon Jul 28, 2014 23:28 UTC

First use of secondary payload adapter on a Delta rocket

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Rocket

Delta IV Medium+ (4,2)

Image Credit: ULA

ULA

Status: Retired

Price: $164.0 million

Liftoff Thrust: 4,895 kN

Payload to LEO: 10,440 kg

Payload to GTO: 6,390 kg

Stages: 2

Strap-ons: 2

Rocket Height: 62.5 m

Fairing Diameter: 4.0 m

Fairing Height: 11.75 m

Details

Mission Details

GSSAP #1/2

GSSAP (Geosynchronous Space Situational Awareness Program) or Hornet is a series of space surveillance satellites developed covertly by the Air Force and Orbital Sciences to provide a space-based capability operating in the near-geosynchronous orbit regime supporting U.S. Strategic Command space surveillance operations as a dedicated Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensor.

Payloads: 2

Geostationary Earth Orbit

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ANGELS

The Autonomous Nanosatellite Guardian for Evaluating Local Space (ANGELS) project is an Air Force Research Laboratory project to develop a small satellite which can orbit close to a larger spacecraft and monitor the local space environment.

Payloads: 1

Total Mass: 70.0 kg

Geostationary Earth Orbit

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Location

SLC-37B, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

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Stats

2014

44th orbital launch attempt

United Launch Alliance

85th mission

8th mission of 2014

84th successful mission

80th consecutive successful mission

Delta IV Medium

20th mission

3rd mission of 2014

20th successful mission