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Atlas IIAS | NROL-1 launched on Tue, Aug 31, 2004, 11:17 PM UTC — a Lockheed Martin mission.
NET Tue, Aug 31, 2004, 11:17 PM UTC
Mission profile
Flight simulation
A representative gravity-turn climb for Atlas IIAS to Geostationary Orbit. Illustrative model — not this mission’s live telemetry.
SimulatedRepresentative Atlas IIAS ascent profile — illustrative model, not this mission’s live telemetry.
The mission
63rd and last flight of Atlas IIAS. 576th and final launch of Rocketdyne-powered Atlas rockets. Final launch from LC36A after 42 years of use. Launch delayed from June 24 and 25, July 1 and 27, August 27, 28, 29 and 30. The payload was probably a communications satellite used to relay data from imaging spy satellites.
Around this launch
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Good to know
Atlas IIAS | NROL-1 is scheduled to lift off Tue, Aug 31, 2004, 11:17 PM UTC.
A live webcast will appear on this page as soon as the provider publishes a stream link.
Atlas IIAS | NROL-1 is an Lockheed Martin mission flying on a Atlas IIAS.
It lifts off from Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.