AFSPC-11 (CBAS & EAGLE)

Launch Success

Liftoff Time (GMT)

23:13:00

Saturday April 14, 2018

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CBAS (USA-283)

CBAS (Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM) is a geostationary satellite to provide communications relay capabilities to support senior leaders, combatant commanders, augmenting existing military satcom.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

USA-286

USA 286 is an unidentified experimental satellite built by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and is flown via the STP (Space Test Program). Likely USA 286 is one of the payloads listed on the EAGLE mission - with ARMOR (AFRL-1201 Resilient Spacecraft Bus Development Experiment) being the most probable candidate.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

USA-287

USA 287 is an unidentified experimental satellite built by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and is flown via the STP (Space Test Program). Likely USA 287 is one of the payloads listed on the EAGLE mission - with ARMOR (AFRL-1201 Resilient Spacecraft Bus Development Experiment) being the most probable candidate.

1 Payload

EAGLE (USA-284)

EAGLE (ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Experiment) is an experimental satellite built by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and is flown via the STP (Space Test Program).

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

Mycroft (USA-285)

Mycroft is an experimental satellite built by Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and is flown via the STP (Space Test Program) to demonstrate satellite inspection. Mycroft is the 4th generation experimental Space Situational Awareness (SSA) spacecraft that builds upon technology, knowledge, and lessons learned from XSS-10 (2003), XSS-11 (2005), and ANGELS (2014).It is built on an Orbital ATK ESPASat bus.

Geostationary Earth Orbit

1 Payload

Rocket

Active
Atlas V 551

Active Since 2006

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Agency

ULA

Price

$153.00 million

Rocket

Diameter: 3.81m

Height: 62.2m

Payload to Orbit

LEO: 18,850 kg

GTO: 8,900 kg

Liftoff Thrust

12,141 Kilonewtons

Fairing

Diameter: 5.4m

Height: 26.5m

Stages

2

Strap-ons

5

Launch Site

SLC-41

Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Fastest Turnaround

15 days 22 hours

Stats

Atlas V


77th

Mission

3rd

Mission of 2018

United Launch Alliance


127th

Mission

4th

Mission of 2018

2018


36th

Orbital launch attempt