AFSPC-4 (GSSAP 1 & 2)

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

23:28:00

Monday July 28, 2014

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Launch Notes

First use of secondary payload adapter on a Delta rocket

ANGELS

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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.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

70 kilograms

GSSAP 1 & 2

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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.

Manufacturer: Northrop Grumman

Operator: United States Space Force

Geostationary Earth Orbit

2 Payloads

Rocket

Retired
Delta IV Medium+ (4,2)

Active 2002 to 2019

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Agency

ULA

Price

$164.00 million

Rocket

Height: 62.5m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 10,440 kg

GTO: 6,390 kg

Liftoff Thrust

4,895 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 4m

Height: 11.75m

Stages

2

Strap-ons

2

Launch Site

SLC-37B

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

66 days 5 hours

Stats

Delta IV Medium


20th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2014

United Launch Alliance


85th

Mission

8th

Mission of 2014

2014


44th

Orbital launch attempt