NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

OTV-2

Launch Time
Sat Mar 05, 2011 22:46 UTC

Rocket

Atlas V 501
Image Credit: ULA
ULA
Status: Retired
Price: $120.0 million
Liftoff Thrust: 3,826 kN
Payload to LEO: 8,210 kg
Payload to GTO: 3,780 kg
Stages: 2
Strap-ons: 0
Rocket Height: 62.2 m
Fairing Diameter: 5.4 m
Fairing Height: 26.5 m

Vehicles

Vandenberg Runway 12

Vehicle 2

Flight #1

Mission Details

OTV-2

USA-226 is the first flight of the second Boeing X-37B, the Orbital Test Vehicle 2 (X-37B OTV-2), an American unmanned robotic vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane.

Payloads: 1
Total Mass: 5,400.0 kg
Low Earth Orbit

Location

SLC-41, Cape Canaveral SFS, Florida, USA

Stats

2011

11th orbital launch attempt

United Launch Alliance

47th mission
2nd mission of 2011
46th successful mission
42nd consecutive successful mission

Atlas V

24th mission
1st mission of 2011
23rd successful mission
14th consecutive successful mission