Spaceflight Now Home



The Mission




Rocket: Atlas 5 (AV-025)
Payload: NROL-41
Date: Sept. 20, 2010
Time: 9:03 p.m. PDT
Site: SLC-3E, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California
Feed: AMC 1, C-band, Transponder 23, 103° West

Mission Status Center

Photos: Pre-flight

Photos: Quiet Sunday

Photos: Gantry rollback

Photos: The launch

Our Atlas archive






Top Stories



Delta 2 rocket launch - A Delta 2 rocket lifts off with an international oceanography satellite.

ESA's lifting body - Europe's re-entry demonstrator should be approved soon for blastoff in late 2013.

Crew arrives at ISS - Next space station crew docks to orbiting complex in Soyuz capsule.

Voyager finds bubbles - The Voyager spacecraft has discovered signs of giant magnetic bubbles at the solar system's outer edge.

Rosetta goes to sleep - ESA's Rosetta comet-chasing spacecraft goes into hibernation.

Shuttle photo op - Spectacular photos of shuttle Endeavour docked to the space station.

Sea Launch update - Two missions are planned this year by Sea Launch from the Pacific Ocean and Kazakhstan.

Fresh crew launched - Reinforcements for the space station crew blast off on a Soyuz rocket.

Picking a destination - NASA will decide this summer where its next Mars rover will land.

Spirit's last images - A collection of the final photos returned from NASA's Spirit rover on Mars.

Atlantis on deck - Beautiful photos of shuttle Atlantis at sunrise on the launch pad.

Endeavour home - Concluding a 16-day mission, Endeavour returns to Earth for the final time.





NewsAlert



Sign up for our NewsAlert service and have the latest news in astronomy and space e-mailed direct to your desktop.

Enter your e-mail address:

Privacy note: your e-mail address will not be used for any other purpose.


Atlas 5 rocket assembled for launch

This collection of photographs shows the Atlas 5 rocket's payload, already encapsulated in the five-meter-diameter nose cone, being hoisted atop the launcher at Vandenberg Air Force Base's SLC-3 pad for the NROL-41 mission.

Photo credit: United Launch Alliance







Photo credit: United Launch Alliance

 

MISSION STATUS CENTER

INDEX | PLUS | NEWS ARCHIVE | LAUNCH SCHEDULE
ASTRONOMY NOW | STORE

ADVERTISE

© 2012 Spaceflight Now Inc.