2018 · United Launch Alliance
AFSPC-11
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Primary payload of the mission is the Continuous Broadcast Augmenting SATCOM (CBAS) satellite, which will be placed in geosynchronous orbit. It will continously relay data from from existing military communications satellites to support senior leaders and combatant commanders. This mission will also launch a number of secondary payloads hosted on the ESPA Augmented Geostationary Laboratory Experiment (EAGLE).
Overview
- Date / time
- April 14, 2018 at 11:13 PM UTC
- Outcome
- success
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 41
- Mission
- AFSPC-11
- Mission type
- Government/Top Secret
- Orbit achieved
- Geostationary Transfer Orbit