NEXT SPACEFLIGHT

Status

Success

AEHF-3

Launch Time
Wed Sep 18, 2013 08:10 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-3

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

2013

52nd orbital launch attempt

United Launch Alliance

75th mission
9th mission of 2013
74th successful mission
70th consecutive successful mission

Atlas V

40th mission
6th mission of 2013
39th successful mission
30th consecutive successful mission