NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

AEHF-1

Launch Time
Sat Aug 14, 2010 11:07 UTC

Rocket

Atlas V 531
Image Credit: ULA
ULA
Status: Retired
Price: $140.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 8,815 kN
Payload to LEO: 15,530 kg
Payload to GTO: 7,450 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 3
Rocket Height: 62.2 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.4 m
Fairing Height: 26.5 m

Mission Details

AEHF-1

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

Location

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

2010

41st orbital launch attempt

United Launch Alliance

42nd mission
5th mission of 2010
41st successful mission
37th consecutive successful mission

Atlas V

22nd mission
3rd mission of 2010
21st successful mission
12th consecutive successful mission