NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

AEHF 5 & TDO 1

Launch Time
Thu Aug 08, 2019 10:13 UTC

Rocket

Atlas V 551
Image Credit: ULA
ULA
Status: Active
Price: $153.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 12,141 kN
Payload to LEO: 18,850 kg
Payload to GTO: 8,900 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 5
Rocket Height: 62.2 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.4 m
Fairing Height: 26.5 m

Mission Details

AEHF 5

Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) is a series of communications satellites operated by the United States Air Force Space Command. They will be used to relay secure communications for the Armed Forces of the United States, the British Armed Forces, the Canadian Forces and the Royal Netherlands Armed Forces.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 6,168.0 kg
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

TDO 1

TDO (Technology Demonstrator Orbiter) 1, also known as EZ 1, is an experimental 12U cubesat flown for the United States Air Force Academy.

Payloads: 1
Geostationary Transfer Orbit

Location

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

2019

56th orbital launch attempt

United Launch Alliance

134th mission
3rd mission of 2019
133rd successful mission
129th consecutive successful mission

Atlas V

80th mission
1st mission of 2019
79th successful mission
70th consecutive successful mission