NROL-1 (Quasar 15)

Launch Successful

Launch Details

Date: 31 Aug 2004, 11:17 pm UTC

Rocket: Atlas IIAS (Atlas)

Provider: Lockheed Martin

Mission

Type: Communications

Orbit: Geostationary Orbit

Pad: Launch Complex 36A, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA

Mission Description

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.