United Launch Alliance Successfully Launches Joint National Security Mission
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Sunday, September 10, 2023
CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla., Sept. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) lifted off on Sept.10 at 8:47 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. To date, ULA has launched 157 times with 100 percent mission success.
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- CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla., Sept. 10, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) and the United States Space Force's Space Systems Command (SSC) lifted off on Sept.10 at 8:47 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- To date, ULA has launched 157 times with 100 percent mission success.
- SILENTBARKER/NROL-107 was ULA's 98th launch for national security and was the final NRO launch aboard an Atlas V rocket as ULA transitions future missions to the next generation Vulcan rocket that will offer unprecedented flexibility in a single system with streamlined operations and greater affordability.
- ULA's next launch is the Amazon Project Kuiper Protoflight mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida.