Atlas V USSF-12 Launch Highlights | United Launch Alliance

Atlas V USSF-12 Launch Highlights | United Launch Alliance

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the USSF-12 mission for the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command lifted off on July 1, 2022, at 7:15 p.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Atlas V rocket uses Russian RD-180 engines.

First launched in 2002, the expendable Atlas V launcher was the centerpiece vehicle that helped cement ULA’s work on national security satellite missions and some of NASA’s biggest space exploration initiatives, including all of the agency’s robotic missions to Mars. To date ULA has launched 151 times with 100 percent mission success.

Credit: United Launch Alliance (ULA)

Duration: 1 minute, 19 seconds

Release Day: July 5, 2022

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